喜士多科技股份有限公司

Pleasant relationships with colleagues

The company is very willing to give newcomers opportunities

There are plenty of opportunities to contribute and discuss ideas

Pathetically low salary

The system has major problems, and there is endless overtime

Once the overtime hours are factored in, the average hourly wage is extremely low

Although overtime can be compensated with time off in lieu, you still need to have the opportunity to take it (when you’re not busy dealing with bugs)

Some colleagues are easy to get along with

The manager is very idle, and is practically an unnecessary presence

The laptop provided by the company is extremely terrible—so bad that it takes 10–20 minutes from booting up to opening all the applications you need

During the interview, they agreed that there would be a subsidy for purchasing your own laptop

After I bought one, I was mocked and told, “Where did you get that idea? Think about it—could that possibly be true?”

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There is also a female colleague with extremely low EQ who starts yelling and banging on the desk after only a few words. She is truly a fucking national treasure.

She is not particularly capable herself, either.

She does not know how to use time functions, and instead uses a bunch of `for` loops to construct times. It took her more than 60 lines just to print a few fixed times.

She also does not reuse functions; the same code is scattered across 6–7 files.

She writes a bunch of shitty code and is still self-righteous about it. It is truly absurd.

Then, when helping with feature development, she does not answer questions at all, or responds with things like, “What do you think?” “So?” “And then?”

Only after development is finished, during the manager’s code review, does she say that I never asked questions, and then explain one by one the things I had asked about in the beginning (fuck).

I fucking asked questions and got no response, leaving me to muddle through two days on my own.

Do you know that once your review answered all my questions, I finished the development in 20 minutes?

If your EQ is bad, go see a doctor. Don’t come to the workplace and act like a clown.

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The project’s coding style is too modern, so the manager worries that others will not understand it and makes new hires change it to the old style (e.g., binary operators, nullish...)

`if` statements must have braces; otherwise, the code below the `if` will all be included in the condition (who taught you how to program?)

They do not provide the database configuration and only tell new hires to infer its purpose from the column names themselves.

Where does the data in the `from_id` column come from? Figure it out yourself. Seriously, who could understand this?

Aside from some colleagues being nice, I can’t think of anything else.

A full day of holiday duty pays $350; weekday after-hours duty is unpaid. On-call duty requires carrying the duty phone.

Overtime is very common, and some people often have to take the last train home.

The computer-based test is not easy. You have about one hour to complete it, so for people who are unfamiliar with the material, the chance of failing is very high.

The work environment is dull and lifeless. The supervisor appears to have plenty of free time to clean the tank for the in-house pets.

The salary is very low. During the probationary period, you won’t receive 30k. After the three-month probation, there is an exam to determine whether you pass probation.

Even if you get hired, absolutely do not go to work there.

The salary is low and the working hours are long. An engineer who changed careers eventually decided to stop programming and work as a cashier at a store instead. That tells you how terrible the company is.

Can’t finish your overtime work? Have to catch the last train home? No problem—take it home and do it!

New hires are given major projects. The supervisor keeps pressuring them without providing help. Most outrageous of all, the person listed as responsible for projects delivered to clients is still shown under the name of an engineer who has already left. The supervisor is extremely self-serving, claiming to be busy with a certain project even though its last commit was more than a month ago.

They said they would give an engineer a raise to retain them, but the resulting figure was laughable.

1. The boss is easy to get along with

2. New graduates don't have to worry about not having opportunities to learn

3. A great place to build a solid foundation

4. Taking leave is flexible; there's no need to work according to a schedule

1. Specifications and handover documents are often unavailable

2. The system has many bugs that never seem to get fixed

3. You may be on duty on holidays, but you don't really know the processes and architecture for each one

4. Promotions are not transparent, and there are no clear criteria

5. High employee turnover

6. The management team lacks experience

The boss has a lot of ideas and is willing to give newcomers opportunities.

1. There are problems with the management team. The supervisors have poor management skills and are unable to effectively coordinate staffing and control project progress, so many projects cannot be completed.

2. The company has a high employee turnover rate, and new hires can often only take over the messes left behind by their predecessors.

Willing to give newcomers a chance

Because they’re cheap and obedient

The colleagues have a very good relationship

Because if one of them leaves, the others will have a hard time

The working hours are too long; “If you can’t finish it, take it home to do” is their catchphrase

The training is just dangling empty promises in front of you