丹意企業股份有限公司

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All the resources are monopolized by the old-timers, yet rookies are expected to find ways to sell high-priced audio equipment and TVs. They will paint you a rosy picture.

The sales turnover rate is very high, and professional knowledge is lacking. The base salary is around 22K...

The administrative assistant is two-faced, and the supervisors are all her pets. The men come to work according to her mood; if she is unhappy, don't expect her to help with anything. I had only heard of the military-style hierarchy—never thought I would personally experience an empress dowager-and-eunuch culture. It was truly eye-opening.

The colleagues are pretty nice, and people leave work at the normal time—no overtime.

1. The job bank lists one salary, but after you’re hired, they tell you that the salary during the probation period is lower! So make sure to ask clearly during the interview.

2. N people from different departments share one email account, and share one internet-connected computer. You need to use a USB drive to copy data from the shared computer back to your own computer to work. If it gets infected, then everyone can take the day off together!

3. Since personal computers cannot access the internet, you have to use your own phone to add vendors on LINE and communicate with them. That way, everyone can complain together, and no one will know you’re talking about the company behind its back!

4. You clock in and out with fingerprints, and the chair’s backrest is only half-height—teaching you how to sit up straight with your head held high.

Aren’t you going to run away yet? This kind of dump can probably only trick inexperienced young newcomers into staying until the end.

The HR interviewer was quite friendly.

In the initial interview, you are asked to fill out basic personal information and take a test. The conversation is fairly relaxed and pleasant.

In the second interview, the company owner’s comments may give you the impression that he looks down on Taiwan’s current service industry, banks, and civil servants, because he believes these are all jobs that do not require much thought. He will also ask the interviewee to explain why the company might not hire them. He may also suggest that working at their company requires a lot of brainpower and that everyone follows an American-style approach in which matters are discussed. (From what I saw, the employees there did not engage in much discussion.)

After that, they repeatedly emphasize that the company expects employees to learn freely and proactively. In other words, there does not seem to be any structured training. They also repeatedly ask whether you like the job and whether you enjoy challenging work.

In summary, they keep undermining your confidence and emphasizing that the job is difficult and challenging, while saying little about the salary. Their goal is probably to reduce the interviewee’s willingness to join the company.

At least they’ll tell you honestly that this is a job requiring you to learn a lot and work hard.

A low-paying sales job with high turnover, offering only a 3.75% commission. You need a guarantor to waive the right of first defense. One careless mistake could mean giving your entire annual salary back to the company—and even causing someone you trust to help repay it for you. Think carefully before joining this company as a salesperson.

Working at the 101 store, the environment is comfortable. The company seems to have a well-established system, and the training sounds quite thorough, which should be helpful for developing sales skills, as well as a sense of aesthetics and taste. The products sold are imported European furniture and audio equipment. They are high-priced, allowing employees to interact with people at the top of the pyramid.

Store sales staff have to take shifts watching the store and also develop designer channels, while the base salary is only NT$23,000. The performance bonuses are low considering the selling prices of the products: 5% for furniture and 2.5% for audio equipment. The company’s top salesperson generates NT$24 million in sales a year. Assuming furniture and audio equipment each account for half, and using an average bonus rate of about 3.75%, that comes to roughly NT$900,000 in bonuses, or about NT$1.2 million including the base salary. Even experienced top salespeople who also serve as store managers earn no more than this. It is easy to imagine what most store sales staff earn—probably around NT$600,000–800,000. At this level, one could easily find another sales job that would be much less demanding, unless one has a strong interest in their products.

Working hours are coordinated with the department store, so they are relatively late.

The salary is very low... Engineers are only given a base salary of 27K plus 5K for transportation expenses (you only receive it after submitting receipts for reimbursement). You also need two guarantors because the audio equipment costs anywhere from hundreds of thousands to over a million. The clients are almost all wealthy people and are extremely difficult to deal with.

The manager makes grand promises, saying that other senior engineers receive bonuses averaging over 40K per month or things like that.

In reality, as long as you fail the evaluation, you do not receive any bonus at all. It is equivalent to working for free, with absolutely no sense of accomplishment.

They do not teach you anything; you have to learn from the other engineers yourself.

The salespeople only know how to talk. Once they get to the site, the engineers have to clean up their messes. The salespeople collect all the bonuses. They are very selfish and will not help.

The turnover among the sales staff is very high, and the base salary is around 22K...

The administrative assistant at Shin Kong is two-faced. She acts as if everyone owes her millions. She has a terrible temper, and if she is in a bad mood, forget about asking her to help with anything. She makes people feel disgusted...