喜陽影片製作有限公司

Despite going through the pandemic, the company still has around 20 employees, which is no small achievement. This is probably because the boss has retained his ambitions and wants to produce projects on a large scale. The company’s basic benefits are fairly good. The boss seems to place great importance on personal relationships, social obligations, and etiquette, and does not easily make excuses to cut these benefits. He is a responsible boss. One advantage of working at a production company with many people is that you get to meet more people, and there is greater variety in the types of projects and styles of collaborating with different directors. The work is not too monotonous or boring, and it is highly challenging.

The boss has high standards and tends to favor the strong. Although he is very humorous, honestly, everyone—including me—would like fewer tasks, more money, a workplace farther from home, an enjoyable atmosphere for filming, and to finish work when the time is up and continue filming tomorrow. But given the realities of commercial considerations, it is probably difficult for things to go exactly as people wish.

1. The boss is someone who is willing to communicate and is very open to discussing life and work-related issues.

2. The colleagues are quite easy to get along with, and the workplace environment is friendly.

1. Almost all employees in the company, except for the administrative staff, work overtime nearly every day. As soon as one project ends, another begins, so if you don't have a good liver, please consider carefully.

2. If filming runs overtime, there is absolutely no overtime pay, nor any meal allowance or transportation reimbursement for location scouting.

3. Because they are quite short-staffed, you will quickly be assigned to work as an on-site filming assistant after joining. However, since this can happen at very short notice, if you have activities planned outside working hours on weekdays or on weekends, you will need to coordinate with your colleagues or the boss. (This is rather subjective, but since I usually plan my schedule in advance, it is a drawback for me.)

4. If you join, you will be required to use your own laptop (the company does not specifically provide laptops for employees to work with, so you will need to prepare your own!).

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There is no overtime pay or compensatory time off for overtime.

They require you to be at work during working hours, but do not require you to leave at the end of the workday.

They do not respect employees; there is no system or structure at all.

You do unpaid work every day.

They do not ask you to do anything during working hours.

They only assign work after hours.

Everything depends on the boss’s mood.

Don’t waste your time.

You will absolutely regret it.

By someone who escaped

It was thoughtful of them to provide small bottles of drinking water, and the receptionist was nice.

The interview atmosphere was relaxed, possibly because I had already decided not to take the job after hearing the offer:)

Everything not mentioned here is the same as in the post by 大大 on the second floor (2018), showing that this company has not changed at all in three years:)

Oh, there is one difference: because the government minimum wage was raised to 24,000, no matter how good a university you graduated from—for example, even if you scored 740 on the TOEIC—

you still start at the minimum wage!

1. I asked for 33,000, leaving room for bargaining.

Them: “Is there room for negotiation?”

Me: “OK.”

Them: “We probably can’t go that high. We’re offering 24,000...... blah blah, omitted below.”

My desire to find a job vanished on the spot～This is hilarious—what kind of negotiation is this? Please......did they think I was holding a going-out-of-business sale?

2. Whether you graduated from a related department, have excellent award-winning academic results, hold more than one language certificate, have internship experience, or possess other advantages, everyone is treated exactly the same: minimum wage! Yes! This era is all about equality! The form I spent half an hour filling out was all for nothing! Because they don’t care at all～They tell you that good performance will lead to a raise, but I don’t know whether that’s true. Anyway, I don’t really trust people who offer this kind of salary from the very beginning:)

3. Thanks to this website, I already had some understanding of this company’s 【you’re-terrible routine】. But I’m fairly confident in my own education and experience, so I wanted to hear just how badly I could be criticized. Unexpectedly, they didn’t say much—maybe I’m just thick-skinned and didn’t care much, or maybe he was in a good mood:)

That man might have felt uncomfortable because he hadn’t been able to use the traditional 【you’re-terrible routine】 from beginning to end, so only at the end did he ask, “Is your English good?”

Honestly, I really couldn’t see why the salary I was being offered or the work I understood 喜陽 to involve would require any English ability. Anyway, I said I was pretty good and mentioned that I had scored 740.

“Our company has National Cheng Kung University graduates who scored 800 saying their English is terrible! And you say you’re good?”

“Are they also......production assistants (24,000)?”

“Yeah.”

Me: oO Wow......

Didn’t you see the N2 listed on my résumé? You have the nerve to offer 24,000 and still expect me to have a TOEIC score of 990, Japanese N1, and a master’s degree from France or something?

This is hilarious. I hadn’t even decided whether to join, and they were already treating me from above like this—is that really OK?

4. A company that doesn’t offer even basic respect or dignity, yet still wants to find good employees?

Here’s a joke: Siyang Video Production Co., Ltd. :D

When the boss is in a good mood, they may treat everyone to drinks or organize occasional group dinners.

The boss has a very bad temper and throws things.

When the boss gets angry, they yell at people and verbally abuse them as if they were dogs.

When applying, no matter how comprehensive your résumé is, it is useless because the boss will not read a single word of it and treats it with complete disdain.

During interviews, the boss will taunt applicants, saying they do not understand things, are too inexperienced, or are asking for too high a salary.

Whether you get hired depends on the boss’s mood, not your talent or qualifications.

Coworkers who are less capable than you may earn much more than you because the boss likes people who know how to flatter them.

The starting salary is very low, and you have to wait at least six months for a raise.

Working overtime until the next day without even being able to go home to shower is a common occurrence.

There is no overtime pay for working overtime on weekdays.

There is also no overtime pay for working overtime on holidays.

Holiday overtime is converted into compensatory leave, and whether you actually get the time off depends on the boss’s mood.

The turnover rate is very high.

If you are no longer considered useful, you will be dismissed, along with the classic line: “You don’t need to come in tomorrow.”

You will be worked to death fixing PPM issues.

The receptionist is very unprofessional.

The interview environment was great, the decor was very high-end, and everything was kept very clean.

They also thoughtfully prepared drinking water for you.

As soon as you arrived, they gave you a two-page form to fill out.

The first page was all kinds of personal background questions, and the second page was an entirely English questionnaire.

After spending some time filling it out,

a man who did not introduce himself at all came in.

After criticizing you, he asked a bunch of questions about information you had already provided when submitting your application.

For example: Where did you go to university? Have you completed your military service? Can you speak English?

Hadn't you already provided this information before they called to arrange the interview?

In short, they wouldn't look at the portfolio or résumé you gave them at all.

Then they repeatedly asked a bunch of strange questions, and finally told you that you were terrible.

If you really wanted to join, it wasn't impossible.

But because you were "terrible," you would start at NT$22,000, and there would be no labor or health insurance.

The working hours are extremely long, with no overtime pay. Employees are held to an all-inclusive responsibility system. In the film industry, working hours are unusually long, and everyone has long stopped caring about working overtime for free, yet the boss still nitpicks about your working hours. When there is work to do, employees can stay up all night filming, but when there is nothing to do, employees are not allowed to arrive late.

The boss constantly bombards employees through messaging apps, making demands whenever something occurs to them, without regard for working hours. Failing to respond is not acceptable either.

The entire company has around twenty employees. Apart from two or three people in the production team, no one has stayed for more than a year. There are many better production companies than this one, so please choose carefully when submitting your résumé.