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Read the community guidelinesPros: A large company. The newly built headquarters in Kaohsiung has a nice, clean, and hygienic environment.
You can learn a lot of cross-departmental knowledge.
Cons: You may be suddenly assigned work without warning. The tasks may span two or three departments, and there may not necessarily be a senior colleague to guide you—it depends on your luck.
If you may be transferred to Yilan, I suggest not coming. The Yilan site is just a sheet-metal building, with one person handling multiple functions across departments. Forget about leaving work on time; getting only two days off a month is considered lucky.
There is no overtime pay. Job assignments are changed according to management’s whims, without even notifying you. The systems are not very organized—it’s a family business 🙃
If you aren’t tough enough or able to adapt and compromise, you should still avoid coming.
Colleagues get along very well.
Everyone genuinely wants to do a good job (with a few exceptions).
When everyone is away from home (at the Yilan worksite), we look after one another and develop a strong sense of camaraderie. When I was considering resigning, I really thought, “Where else could I find colleagues like these?!”
The boss has absolute authority—whatever he says goes. But in fact, there is also someone behind the scenes pulling the strings: the boss’s wife～～
The job duties agreed upon during the interview completely changed once I arrived in Yilan. In addition to being assigned different work, I was told I would be going to Yilan on business trips, but it turned out they actually expected me to be stationed there. The interview was extremely misleading.
If they had made it clear during the interview that this was not a business-trip position, I could have reassessed the opportunity. Later, after arriving at the worksite, I found that quite a few people had experienced the same situation as I did (the interview did not match the actual conditions).
The supervisor is impossible to communicate with and only makes sarcastic, dismissive remarks. His unwillingness to teach is very off-putting! It’s not that he necessarily has to teach us—there are many colleagues who are willing to help when we don’t understand something—but he has a poor attitude when assigning work and even makes indirect, insulting remarks.
The office environment is full of secondhand smoke, in clear violation of the Tobacco Hazards Prevention Act.