金盛元興業有限公司

The company moved to Jingke. The office is very new and spacious.

In the entire department, only one supervisor has stayed for more than 10 years, and one sales representative/assistant has been there for 7 years.

The other 7–8 people have between 1 month and 2 years of experience.

Customers would often exaggerate and say, “This position changes two dozen people a year.”

At first, I didn’t think much of it.

The company policies are actually quite loose, and the responsibilities and boundaries of each position are unclear.

For the same position, some people don’t have to do certain tasks, while others have to handle everything.

Although I have industry experience,

adapting to a new environment still takes time.

During the first two weeks, I learned the system.

In the third week, I began the handover and first assisted with handling customers.

By the fourth week, 80% of the customers (about 14 in total) had already been handed over to me to handle on my own.

(The person handing them over to me had already left the customer groups and said that I didn’t need to CC her on emails concerning those 80% of customers.) In the fifth week, I was expected to complete the handover of the remaining 20% of the customers. As before, after handing them over, she would no longer be involved.

After I reported this to my supervisor, she came to check which tasks I had not yet completed.

While looking over my work, she said:

“I’m really speechless.” “May I ask what exactly you’ve been doing?”

I immediately submitted my resignation to HR on the spot...

Three people joined at the same time (and we all had the same salary).

Who else, like me, was handed all the customers after just five weeks?!

HR kept asking me if I could stay.

The company said it could agree to any request.

Sorry.

With such “great” colleagues,

I’ll leave the opportunity to someone else!

None at all!!!!!!!

A dictatorial and arbitrary boss who thinks he is wealthy and powerful. Decisions about employees’ salaries are based entirely on personal preferences. The company’s most senior executive has been there for more than 10 years, while most of the others have been there only 1–2 years. The turnover is so high that it could be called a graveyard for mid- and senior-level managers, and there is an extreme lack of respect for professional expertise!!! Although the boss offers managers substantial bonuses, the demands are extremely high; decisions change from day to day, and the boss’s moods are unpredictable. If the boss is unhappy today, you may be told to leave immediately!!!!

Employees below management live in a high-pressure, fearful environment every day, so turnover is extremely high~~~ The factory buildings are also run-down and dilapidated~~~~

Recommendation: Don’t be lured in by the initially high salary. You will absolutely, absolutely regret it~~~~ Internal governance is a complete mess, and the division of responsibilities is unclear!!!!

They proactively contacted me to arrange an interview with the “department manager.” I looked at the company introduction on the 104 Job Bank website; it was well-written and seemed fairly proactive and positive, and the content seemed normal. The HR lady sent me a text message through 104, saying to bring Chinese and English résumés, certificates, and work samples. I then went to the company website to take a look, and it was entirely in English. I thought, “It’s rare for Daya Township to have a Taiwanese company modeled after a foreign enterprise that looks so much like an international company. I might as well give it a try.” I spent two days preparing the materials they requested. I arrived at the company on time. Although the exterior was an old, run-down bungalow, we shouldn’t look down on people. The lobby was all right too; inside, there were partitions in a faux-industrial style, and the office area was still underneath corrugated metal roofing. It must be unbearably hot in summer. Then the receptionist handed me a résumé form to fill out. Writing “according to company policy” for expected salary wasn’t acceptable—they insisted that I write an actual figure. Fine, I wrote NT$36,000, which was lower than what I earned at my previous two companies: NT$80,000 at the last one and NT$50,000 at the one before that. At that point, another person who was also there for an interview arrived and started filling out the résumé form too. After we finished, the HR lady came over and said it was time for the interview, asking me to go into the conference room together with the other person. I thought, “No way. What is this? How lucky can I be—to encounter two people applying for the same position and have us interviewed orally together?” Well, I was already there, so I decided to see what they were up to. Then a very self-confident, somewhat arrogant young man came in. For context, I’m 46, and the other gentleman was about 56. This young man in his early thirties started by saying, “You have three minutes to introduce yourselves. Starting now.” Wow, this was the first time I had ever encountered such a polite young man. I was truly lucky. The other gentleman and I had both spent twenty or thirty years in the industry, both had graduate degrees, and both were changing jobs at the managerial level. To receive such a polite welcome was really something we ought to reflect on. Six minutes later, we finished our introductions. The young man said nothing, simply opened the door and walked out, leaving the two of us who had come for the interview behind. Then HR came in and said, “You can leave now. We’ll notify you this Friday whether you’ve been selected.” I reminded her that today was Friday and there was only one hour left before the end of the workday. Only then did she change it to next Friday. How lucky we were! We got to be interviewed by such wonderful company managers!

If you have plenty of time to kill, and want to practice filling out résumé information and preparing materials and work samples (they were too lazy even to ask about them or look at them), you might as well come here for an interview!

Senior executives speak English, and sometimes you can meet foreign clients.

At my previous company, the salary was 37,000, and my supervisor told me that this was considered very good compensation.

The company offers relatively low salaries to people with capabilities in the industry. If you are serious about developing a career in CNC manufacturing, I recommend looking for a larger company.

During the interview, the supervisor interviewed me first—probably the section manager or team leader from the manufacturing department? Then the supervisor asked an engineer to interview me. However, the engineer seemed hostile, and the atmosphere did not feel right. The engineer did not seem like someone who had graduated from an ordinary university. After looking at my written interview answers, the engineer told their supervisor that my abilities did not meet their requirements.

I can only say that if you graduated from an ordinary university within the past 10 years and work in CNC manufacturing, after meeting that engineer, you would not want to work with him. The atmosphere just did not feel right. The above is solely my personal impression; if I have caused any offense, please be understanding.

Are there any?

During my short tenure, a large number of colleagues across nearly every unit and department were forced out, so labor disputes were constant.

Don't come here and waste your time and youth...

If you are the general manager’s favorite, you will receive the best treatment.

But don’t celebrate too soon—favorites are usually kicked out by the general manager and treated like garbage before long.

This is a company that is hard to describe; “slave factory” is the best name for it.

The bosses (the general manager is the son, the person in charge is his mother, and there is also his father; occasionally, his older brother appears) have a very strange mindset. They hire foreigners as consultants, making the company appear to be a foreign enterprise on the surface.

But at its core, employees are treated like slaves—and slaves paid meager wages!

Even when they intend to lay you off, they often fail to do so in accordance with the law, so nearly every time an employee is laid off, a labor complaint is filed.

During my short time there, I witnessed several of the general manager’s favorites go from being favored to being mercilessly trampled like garbage. The work content remained the same, yet they were inexplicably demoted or inexplicably pressured to leave. They simply refused to terminate employees cleanly or pay severance.

Although I left quite some time ago, encountering such bosses in life certainly opened my eyes. I’ll just regard it as one of life’s extraordinary experiences.

A very interesting company. One vice president moved downward all the way: manager → section chief, and finally “staff member”—a total of seven demotions in a short period of time. This shows that the company’s promotions are very flexible. I’ve continuously seen them recruiting R&D personnel for several years, which shows how eager they are for talent. The company is fully equipped with various instruments: 3–4-axis mill-turning/turn-milling machines, as well as an enterprise-grade RP system and fatigue testing machine that have been gathering dust for a long time because no one knows how to operate them. I’m not sure whether they have an optical coordinate measuring machine, but in any case, using some of the instruments may require cleaning off the spider webs first (I really have done it).

A company that good—why wouldn’t you stay? The problem is with the individual. As long as the material structure cannot be changed, there’s no way to change the laws of physics. For example, 6061-T6 has a tensile strength of 42,000 psi. If you could raise the tensile strength to 80,000 psi, you would certainly have a great future at this company. You might even be hired by The Aluminum Association at a high salary! Winning the Nobel Prize would be well deserved too~~

None. This is the perfect company; if you resign, it’s definitely because the problem is with you.