台灣酷樂時代股份有限公司

6.6% market share, backed by the group

The manager's experience lags behind the industry

Will you slack off at work to buy fish and masks?

Can you call home during work to ask someone to keep an eye out for whether a package has arrived?

Are you able to run your private online business while at work?

Do you have the courage to pretend to be in a meeting while your supervisor is on leave, actually sneak out for the whole day, and return just before the end of the workday?

Can you arrive late every day, leave work late, and put on a convincing show of looking exhausted from working so hard?

Can you do your utmost to build your personal brand during work hours, say everything that needs to be said, and resist outside distractions?

Will you delegate all your own tasks to your colleagues by email and still get away unscathed?

Can you accept producing more than a year’s worth of self-righteous garbage, in gratitude that all the people around you who work together are idiots, fools, and “jiǎ sāi”?

Can you master, even before starting work here, the professional skills of operating within a hierarchical leadership structure for a long time—acting one way in front of people and another behind their backs, and saying one thing while doing another?

If you can do all of the above and accept it, then you’re truly impressive—so for you, they’re all advantages!

You’ll take on tasks but won’t dodge them; you’ll do the work but won’t push it onto others; you’ll speak up but won’t flatter.

You’ll treat people honestly, but you won’t be morally flawless.

If you can do all of the above and it fits you, then it just depends on whether you consider them shortcomings!

The office location is clean

1. The company is plagued by bureaucracy, and employees have no sense of cohesion.

2. The managers have no professional experience, and collaborative projects are handled merely to get them out of the way.

3. The promotion system is flawed, with managers selecting people based solely on personal preferences.

4. Policies change constantly.

Inside the Songshan Cultural and Creative Park building

1. They simply created a subsidiary called K樂時代; in practice, it still follows the Taiwan Mobile corporate system.

2. They ask people to come for interviews without doing any preparation, and spend the entire time asking them to share experiences from their previous companies.

What is this? Did you ask me to come to a study-sharing session? It is obvious that they just want to find people to generate business and poach industry experience.

3. One of the interviewers kept handling work on a laptop. What the hell? If you are busy, then do not conduct interviews.

If you are going to interview someone, do not be busy with other things. You do not even understand basic courtesy toward job applicants. I do not know how pleasant it would be to work there...

4. A major interview taboo: they did not even provide a glass of water (WTF??

5. They did not even reserve a meeting room for the interview; they conducted it directly outside, next to the pantry.

That was not even the worst of it: a bunch of random passersby were secretly listening in nearby during the interview. The whole thing was inexplicable.

Throughout the interview, a bunch of passersby were watching you. It felt unbelievably damn uncomfortable.

When I asked the interviewer whether we could move somewhere else for the interview, they actually told me they could not get a meeting room........ I was completely dumbfounded.

6. As for the Taiwan Mobile experience next door, some of the managers there have experience that is quite behind the industry standard.

But they are the ones who set performance evaluations and that year's targets, so anyone who wants to go should think it through carefully.

Finally, the company still has a bunch of outsourced workers and interns, and its working style remains bureaucratic and system-bound.

If you want to go, remember to negotiate the salary properly.