妍發科技股份有限公司

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Annual salary: 12 months + bonus; less than 13 months’ pay

Working hours: An overtime culture; leaving too early will get you reprimanded

Year-end bonus: Depends on the boss’s mood

Job responsibilities: Plant factory management + R&D + miscellaneous tasks

Thoughts:

Extremely high turnover among managers; in less than a year of employment, six senior managers were replaced

Most employees are older; foreign workers and local middle-aged women make up almost the entire workforce

The R&D department consists entirely of alternative-service draftees

Remember to photograph or record any contracts you sign or anything a supervisor says (especially the boss), and keep the records

They operate on the edge of the Labor Standards Act and are extremely skilled at exploiting loopholes in it

Off-hours

Annual salary: 12 months + bonus; less than 13 months

Working hours: 08:30–17:30

Year-end bonus: The year-end bonus and three holiday bonuses depend on the boss’s mood

Job responsibilities: Circuit design + programming + product manufacturing scheduling

Thoughts:

Lunch is provided by a catering service, with NT$50 deducted per meal

Project schedules are compressed to the limit; they will cite the “responsibility system” and expect you to work overtime until everything is finished

When a typhoon hits and a disaster-prevention leave day is declared, they will still claim that the hourly system applies (unpaid)

Overtime can offset being late that day; no overtime pay

Holiday overtime can be exchanged for compensatory leave; no overtime pay

During the interview, they mentioned an annual salary guaranteed for 14 months, but that was not actually the case

The RD department only has alternative-service R&D personnel, and turnover in the department is very high. Most engineers in the department are responsible for two different areas of expertise, such as hardware + firmware, computer software + Android, or iOS + web development