國泰人壽保險股份有限公司

Having to deal with a dishonest supervisor is tough. Only gradually do you realize that the supposed goodness is wrapped in deception, and you get none of it.

The company bullies the weak with its power. It takes pride in being an old-established business, but much of that is an illusion. It is extremely old-fashioned, aloof, and lacking in vitality.

The interviewing manager was still sending harassing messages on the job bank at 23:58, showing that this is a workplace with sustainable employment.

The manager did not leave work after midnight and kept sending harassing messages to job seekers who had not even submitted a résumé.

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The interview process went very smoothly, but afterward, HR seemed unwilling to hire me. In the end, I didn't receive any news at all and even had to call to ask. They were then very surprised that I hadn't received any notification, and only afterward did I receive a canned thank-you letter ^^.

The company has quite a lot of resources, so there are opportunities to slack off.

There is an annual salary adjustment, but if the associate vice president likes you, you’ll get a bigger increase; otherwise… it’s very opaque.

In recent years, the company set up a war room in an attempt to digitally transform, but only did half the job, instead throwing the whole organization into chaos.

Several deputy CIOs and vice presidents often speak incoherently and without direction, making things very difficult for the people below them.

There are a lot of weird math majors here—this company proves it.

The organization is too large; simple things are often made unnecessarily complicated.

The entire company is doing its utmost to lavish praise on the successor. After all, the family business is huge and can live off its accumulated wealth.

They claim not to lay people off, but there is always a way to force people out.

The person who greeted me was fairly polite.

The interviewer kept asking questions that had absolutely nothing to do with the job—it was practically a background investigation.

In the end, they even questioned my past work experience. To put it plainly, they were saying that I was not qualified for this position.

1. Most of the office-based colleagues help one another, creating a good atmosphere, and the year-end bonuses are high.

2. There are opportunities to work on major projects, providing many opportunities to learn and grow.

There is indeed a culture of flattery; advancing depends on one's skills.

1. The salary is not bad; if you receive a good performance rating, N*20 is possible.

2. The benefits are comprehensive, and you will receive everything you are supposed to—except overtime pay.

3. Most people have civil-servant-like working hours, but it still depends on your supervisor and the nature of the business work.

P.S. Workplace: Headquarters

1. The job depends heavily on your supervisor’s character; the culture of flattering superiors is extremely serious from top to bottom.

2. Ongoing projects can easily change direction drastically or be abandoned altogether when a senior manager is replaced, wasting considerable company resources and leaving projects spinning their wheels (related to the flattering culture mentioned in point 1).

3. Innovation is largely just a slogan. Big data, fintech, and so on are very skillfully packaged in reports, but there are few substantive results. Most of it consists of flowery language intended for mutual praise.

4. Basically, it is similar to serving in the military: the system is very rigid, older employees rely on seniority, and newer employees wait for their turn to be taken advantage of. The workforce has a very pronounced M-shaped age distribution.

5. In short, aside from the money, claims about being a “happy workplace” should be taken with a grain of salt. There is little else to comment on, so think carefully before joining.