紳業工業有限公司

The only advantage is that you don't have to work on make-up workdays.

Everything else is full of drawbacks.

I sincerely recommend that experienced people not come here to humiliate themselves.

Unless you're a fresh graduate or changing careers—in which case it's suitable for gaining experience, but you still have to endure it.

1. As mentioned below, the salary consists of base pay plus a meal allowance. Only the sales department receives this kind of salary adjustment; other administrative departments do not.

2. The atmosphere at work is extremely oppressive. You can't talk, and supervisors occasionally let out loud sighs. Taking out your phone feels like committing a crime, and you can't go to the bathroom for too long without being checked on.

3. Employees are treated as outsiders and tools for making money. There is no overtime pay. Although you can submit a request, it requires approval from above, so it's effectively the same as having none. Employees are guarded like thieves; nothing is provided, not even ordinary items such as an incoming/outgoing stamp. Purchases must be price-compared—even stationery, folders, and printer paper costing less than 50 NTD.

4. As mentioned below, the snack cabinet is actually stocked in advance, but the boss will come and compete with you for the snacks. If the boss sees only two or three items left in a bag, they will be extremely unhappy and demand that everyone be reminded to take the items out and throw away the bag.

5. The turnover rate is extremely high; more than 10 people leave in a year.

6. Work is distributed unevenly. Because the company cannot hire enough people, everyone has to do multiple jobs and is occasionally asked to help load goods, making you feel more like a laborer.

7. The office has an open-plan seating arrangement with no partitions. The desks and chairs are much too low, making it easy to suffer back pain. Only supervisors and key departments have height-adjustable desks; everyone else can wait indefinitely.

8. You have to help order boxed lunches and clean. Although someone has been hired to clean, they only come twice a month. The company is unwilling to spend more on maintaining the environment, so sometimes tiny cockroaches accompany you while you eat. Cleaning areas are assigned, but no one actually wants to do the work. You order boxed lunches for the company to reimburse, but they are not treating you—the meal allowance is already part of your salary structure.

9. The air conditioning can only be turned on depending on the time and temperature. It is often left off even when it is very hot. The office is stuffy when you arrive in the morning, but it is best not to turn it on in order to save electricity.

10. There is a plastic smell. The office air circulation is extremely poor. As someone mentioned, the warehouse area near the entrance often has very strong plastic, paint, and parts odors, which spread into the office. It would not be surprising if someone became ill from the fumes one day. You cannot close the door because then the air would not circulate.

11. Regarding year-end and mid-year bonuses, the year-end bonus is not fixed at one month's salary; it is paid according to the boss's mood. Half of your money is paid separately—divided by two and turned into the mid-year bonus, which is the Dragon Boat Festival bonus.

12. There are three holiday bonuses, but they are very small. Excluding the Dragon Boat Festival bonus, there is only 1,500 NTD for the Mid-Autumn Festival and 200 NTD for the start of work after the New Year holiday (you get nothing if you don't come in that day).

13. Health examinations follow the Labor Standards Act: you only get a free one after five years. If you have been there less than five years, forget about it.

14. You have to write a work log every day, recording what you did that day—your personal work diary.

15. Mondays have an activity resembling a university weekly meeting. Everyone is assigned a topic to present, related to economic news. The key point is that you must explain how it benefits the company; if you fail to mention that, you will be lectured. Supervisors will also be criticized, but it provides zero help with your work.

16. There are an absurd number of group chats, and you can never finish checking them all; you have to follow every one.

17. It is a paperless workplace. You absolutely must not print too much, or the boss will be unhappy. Use your eyes to compare documents on the computer yourself; I believe your myopia will increase rapidly.

18. If you are applying for a non-engineering or sales position, don't come; you are replaceable.

19. There are often new projects, new ideas, and new changes at work—everything changes according to the boss's whims.

20. You come to work to work. There is absolutely no such thing as friendship among colleagues, and you must be careful not to be stabbed in the back. That is not part of your job.

21. Young, attractive female employees should take care to protect themselves.

22. Be careful not to be sabotaged by others. If you are in a key department, you have no chance of winning—you are guaranteed to lose.

23. You must ask the boss before ordering drinks.

24. Whenever drinks are provided or the three holiday bonuses are distributed, there will be a “culture of gratitude.”

25. Things are often not given to you on time, but once they are, you are expected to finish them immediately—as if this were your only responsibility.

26. The computer towers are inconsistent, and the keyboards may be difficult to press or have missing letters. You can only buy keyboard stickers or make do. Everyone has different versions of Office, so sometimes files open in newer or older versions.

27. Performance review scores are completely unfair. They are based on relationships with colleagues and whether the boss likes you.

28. No matter what kind of leave you request, you must give a reason. You cannot refuse to say; they will keep asking until you do. The boss does not like employees taking leave, even sick leave or annual leave. Taking too much leave will draw attention, and sick leave must have documentation.

This confirmed that the first few articles on Job Hunting Clairvoyance were all true, providing strong endorsement for those articles. Great.

The interview ran from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. The office was quiet, and even the interviewee could sense the tension and high pressure. There were no partitions in the office, and the computer monitors were not small, so everyone in the company could see what each employee was doing. It felt difficult to properly rest, find one's work rhythm, or relax for a moment. Even when sales staff answered phone calls, they spoke in hushed voices, which felt very oppressive.

The interview had three stages:

The first stage was a written English test: three situational decision-making questions, one accounting question, and one Chinese-to-English translation question. Answering everything required strong English writing, translation, and accounting skills. I felt the difficulty was a little too high for an assistant position.

The second stage was a computer test, further divided into three sections. The test order was logical reasoning based on dice numbers → preparing an import/export report → calculating the total on an EXCEL shipping form.

By this point, the test had basically already taken two hours, leaving me physically and mentally exhausted. However, that was all right—the supervisor had me wait in the interview meeting room for a while, so I got a fairly long break.

The third-stage interview included both Chinese and English questions. There were about three English questions, with the rest in Chinese. The questions that day were, in order: family background → where my hometown was → why I moved to the greater Taipei area → how well I understood the company. The English questions asked about my development plans for myself three and five years from now → describing my strengths and weaknesses. I vaguely remember the last question and have already forgotten it. They also asked about my expected salary and let me speak freely, encouraging me to fully exercise my imagination. Afterwards, they told me that the company's salary was fixed and would not be adjusted for me, then gave me the offer. The fixed starting salary is 32 → 34 after passing probation → 36 after an evaluation six months later → 38 another six months after that.

A few final observations:

1. The company benefits included snacks from around the world. However, what I saw that day consisted mostly of small snacks similar to Cheetos and pineapple cakes. Perhaps everyone has different expectations of what “snacks from around the world” as a company benefit means.

2. Upon entering the company, there was first a warehouse, and only after passing through another door did you reach the office area. The warehouse had no air conditioning; only the office area was air-conditioned. I wonder whether the blue-collar workers who stay at the company will be very hot in summer.

3. The company did not have its own restroom, so employees had to use the office building's shared facilities. As a result, going to the bathroom involved a fairly long walk.

The advantages may not be known or discovered yet.

At first, I was told the probationary salary was either 32K or 33K—I can't quite remember. However, when I received my salary after not completing the full month, I discovered that it included “meal expenses,” probably a little over 2,000. This was not disclosed, and it was also not stated in the information on the job-search website. Later, after asking colleagues who had been there longer, I found out that the days not worked in full were deducted from both the base salary and that day's meal allowance. Therefore, after deducting labor and health insurance and the so-called meal expenses, the actual salary might only be around 28–29K. Also, even something as simple as requesting a pay slip could take a very long time. Honestly, sending an electronic file—or scanning a paper copy and sending it by email—should be very quick, so I was curious why it took so long. In short, everyone should definitely ask clearly how much they will actually receive and how expenses such as meal allowances are calculated. You should also make sure to obtain a pay slip from the company so you can understand how your salary was calculated, what deductions were made, whether they were reasonable, and so on, in order to protect your rights.

My position was sales assistant, with a starting salary of 35K.

There was a simple English proficiency test during the interview, as well as a basic Excel skills test.

After completing the initial tests, I had an interview with a young female manager who wore her hair in a ponytail. There was an English situational conversation, which was fairly simple because the manager herself did not seem to have a very high level of English, so the vocabulary used in the conversation was very basic and not very in-depth.

Overall, people “felt” very friendly and positive.

Think twice before joining!

I didn’t notice any problems within the company during the first week, but issues gradually began to surface during the second and third weeks.

1. I honestly told them during the interview that I had no relevant experience. They were indeed looking for new hires and said they were willing to train me, but the pre-employment training was rushed and not very comprehensive. At first, they simply had you watch training videos and take notes. Although the videos provided basic knowledge, once you actually started working, you would discover that many important details were not covered. There was an assessment every Friday, and you had to take materials home to memorize.

2. The HR person who trained me was fairly patient and would offer advice and answers to work-related questions. However, starting in the second and third weeks, when I began preparing formal trade documents, she would say that many of the issues had already been explained and that I should solve them myself. It felt a bit like being abandoned. Sometimes, when I encountered different situations or was unsure about certain document details, she would dismiss me with the same excuse. The manager was also not very good at training people. She would skip steps when explaining things, and the instruction was sometimes incomplete; otherwise, she would speak extremely quickly. If I asked about something I didn’t understand the next day, she would lose her temper and say, “Didn’t I already explain that last time?” In short, the training was fragmented. In the third week, before I had become proficient or fully learned the work, they already threw winning orders at me to handle. It was completely like forcing a duck onto a perch. Their expectations of new hires were also unfriendly. Expecting an inexperienced newcomer to immediately perform at the level of a veteran after just two or three weeks is simply unrealistic. They might as well hire an expert.

3. The work atmosphere is a little too settled—more like lifeless and dull—and is not suitable for lively, outgoing people. If you are quiet, can tolerate boring and highly repetitive work, and are very submissive, you can work here.

4. If you are in the sales department, you will often hear the young female manager sighing and complaining. Hearing it for a long time will inevitably affect your mood to some extent.

5. There are a great many work-related group chats, and everything is chaotic and disorganized. Responsibilities are sometimes not clearly explained, leaving people below unsure what to do, because who is responsible for what keeps shifting. In addition, employee turnover is consistently very high, so even colleagues who joined earlier may not know about or be familiar with certain matters when you ask them.

6. Before leaving work every day, you have to write a work log to evaluate efficiency—for example, what you did from what time to what time and how long it took. However, multiple tasks are often interspersed during the workday, making this difficult to define. When preparing documents, if the computer lags or runs slowly, you cannot record the time spent beyond the required limit; otherwise, it will be blamed on you. In reality, their computer software is outdated and frequently freezes or takes a long time to run. It seems that the Excel version has not been updated either, so occasional problems arise and it is difficult to use.

7. Employees have to be assigned areas of the office to clean. It feels just like being in elementary school.

8. The office does not provide much stationery, and what is provided is not very useful. Bringing your own pencil case is more practical.

9. Everyone rarely goes to the restroom, and it feels as though people are afraid to leave their desks—as if taking a break to use the restroom were considered slacking off. Sometimes, when you cannot hold it in during work hours and need to have a bowel movement, staying in the restroom a little longer seems to attract strange looks.

The company rotates employees so you get to meet different people.

During the month I was there, two people left.

The atmosphere was extremely grim.

The supervisor neither taught us nor was willing to let anyone else teach us.

One person was expected to do the work of three or four.

The company had no restroom or trash cans; everyone used the building’s shared facilities.

If the position you applied for is still being advertised after you join, you could be replaced at any time.

For those who applied for the warehouse position around June 2022, please note:

This was because an internal employee was going to resign, and the warehouse supervisor wanted to quickly find a replacement, so the vacancy was posted.

The warehouse was staffed as follows: one supervisor, one warehouse employee, and one office employee handling order entry.

The one office employee handling order entry resigned in July 2022, so they wanted to quickly find a replacement and posted the vacancy.

The interview was fairly relaxed: one side of an A4 sheet, to be completed within 30 minutes. The interview required two written parts; the first was five handwritten questions.

After finishing, you had to scan a QR code and fill in information according to their requirements.

However, none of the above was the main reason they decided whether to hire you.

The main factor was whether someone currently working there was going to resign.

If you still want to know, the handwritten questions are provided below:

1. Self-introduction (limited to 100 Chinese characters)

2. Suppose you wanted to attend a concert held by a distant relative in the United States on February 9, but you already knew that the company would grant 10 days of annual leave at the beginning of February, with work resuming on February 6. Would you go? If you wanted to go, how would you arrange it with the company?

3. Which of the following investment options would you choose? Write down your choice and explain why:

(a) A 1/100 chance of profit, with a 1,000-fold return

(b) A 1/2 chance of profit, with a 10-fold return

(c) A 99/100 chance of profit, with a twofold return

4. Today, a customer ordered a batch of goods scheduled for delivery on October 31. It was originally expected to be delivered on time, but a few days before delivery,

you suddenly discover that 5% of the goods are defective. How would you handle this situation?

(a) Deliver on time, inform the customer that 5% are defective, and additionally prepare 5% replacement goods for the customer.

(b) Deliver on time without specifically informing the customer, and first prepare 5% replacement goods in case the customer raises the issue.

(c) Inform the customer that delivery will be delayed, immediately inspect all the goods, and deliver them only after confirming that they are 100% acceptable.

(d) Deliver on time and reduce the quoted price to the customer by 5%.

(e) Other.

Write down your answer and explain your reasoning.

5. The company previously discovered on a foreign website that an overseas company had made a product with very strong sales, and it also wanted to invest in developing such a product. Which strategy would you recommend? (I really don't remember this question exactly—sorry.)

(a) Make that foreign product the top priority, find out which equipment suppliers they used, and produce an identical product.

(b) Analyze the product, contact domestic equipment suppliers, and produce a highly similar product.

(c) First make a more introductory product in the same field, then look for opportunities to continue developing it.

(d) Other.

Write down your answer and explain your reasoning.

The above was written from memory; I can only guarantee that the general meaning is the same.

1. I interviewed with Company A (Shenye Industrial Co., Ltd.), but upon joining, I became an employee of Company B (Shiye Enterprise Co., Ltd.).

2. The warehouse position started at 31, but there was an assessment every three months. If you failed the assessment, you were immediately dismissed. The supervisor had the greatest authority over the assessment.

3. During the probationary period, if the supervisor decided that you were unsuitable, they would ask you to leave immediately (that same day). There was no assessment mechanism whatsoever; it was based solely on the supervisor's opinion. This is something to pay attention to.

4. During the interview, I asked whether it would be acceptable if I were assigned to enter orders in the office, given that my previous experience was different and I was not immediately productive.

They said that being willing to learn and ask questions would be sufficient.

After I joined, they would make you leave on the grounds that you were unsuitable, because they wanted someone who could be immediately productive and did not ask too many questions.

5. The company had approximately 2X employees. Each unit was small, and the conditions for taking leave were relatively stringent.

6. In June 2022, there was a salary-deduction system (in violation of the Labor Standards Act).

7. The warehouse supervisor could not teach people. While teaching step 1, they would suddenly jump to 1-1, 1-2, 5-4, 3-1, and 4-7 in a fragmented and chaotic manner. Then, after telling you to do 3, if you said you did not know how or asked again, they would say they had already taught you. Later, after receiving guidance from a kind colleague, I learned that step 3 was actually a combination of parts of each of the above steps. This teaching method was practically psychic.

8. On my first day, a colleague was supposed to provide guidance, but the supervisor said they would teach me instead. In the end, the supervisor taught almost nothing or taught in a chaotic, disjointed manner, and privately said that the person who was leaving was not to be believed about anything. However, I was able to start handling the work only thanks to guidance from the colleague who was leaving.

9. Communication was conducted via Skype, but there were more than eight groups, plus one LINE group. There were simply too many groups.

9-1. I was not taught which group to use when receiving messages or what format to use.

9-2. I was not taught how to create the documents afterward.

9-3. I was not taught which group to send the completed documents to.

9-4. None of the follow-up procedures after asking questions, nor any of the above, were taught by the supervisor. I had to ask colleagues for help and organize everything myself.

Do not listen to anything she says.

10. They asked you to create documents but did not add you to the corresponding group. When you asked about a problem, they would say to look for the answer in the group yourself.

This happened repeatedly. When they finally could not bear to check for themselves, they discovered that you had not actually been added to the group and made excuses when asking the person who was leaving why you had not been added. In fact, they had originally said they would add you themselves.

11. The person who was leaving (a sales assistant) said they were hiring a warehouse clerk, but the position actually involved taking over all of the departing sales assistant's duties.

12. They expected you to "complete the handover of all duties" in just "two days," but the training was fragmented. Even the departing employee said that this was impossible.

13. I once privately asked how quickly one document could be completed at the fastest. The departing employee answered, "around two minutes." That was only under conditions where all information was complete and the computer was not lagging.

14. At the end of each day, you had to write a daily report to evaluate efficiency. According to the daily-report requirements mentioned above, completing one document was expected to take 1–1.5 minutes. If the computer lagged and ran too slowly, making it impossible to keep the time within the required limit, you would be blamed for the problem.

Summary of information about the warehouse position

1. Psychic-style training

2. Interviewed with Company A, but joined Company B

3. Whether people were dismissed depended entirely on the supervisor's mood

4. An enormous workload that they wanted handed over in two days

5. Nearly harsh assessment standards, treated as perfectly reasonable when applied to new employees

6. The supervisor's chaotic teaching style: teaching whatever came to mind and adding whatever they wanted, without considering what you were currently asking about

7. Numerous groups, with no explanation of their purposes—as if a newly hired person would somehow know automatically

8. The supervisor openly said that they were looking for someone who could serve as a replacement. After one warehouse employee was deducted from the staffing, only the supervisor and the sales assistant who was about to resign remained in the office. Once the sales assistant left, the supervisor would have to handle all the work themselves, with no replacement.

It’s fairly easygoing. You write a questionnaire of about 10 questions, and they ask whether you want to do it in English or Chinese. You may answer in English; there are no standard answers, but you need to provide reasons. Then there is an Excel summation exercise, a casual conversation with the manager during the interview, and so on. Finally, the engineer tests your computer-aided drawing skills and asks a few questions about mechanical fits. For a master’s graduate, the salary can reach around NT$44,000 after one year, with a starting salary of NT$38,000. They say there is almost no overtime, and there is a high chance of business trips to Europe. Your English needs to be good.

They ask whether, if you are hired, you can provide the phone number of your current company supervisor. They will ask HR to call your former supervisor to inquire about you. I don’t know whether this is just meant to intimidate you or whether they really do it.