木刻思股份有限公司

Work from home & Any time.

But they keep asking you to go visit clients and accompany proposals,

and before scheduling any meeting, they never ask whether the time works for you. When you ask what documents need to be prepared, they don’t tell you either—you have to use your psychic powers and guess everything yourself.

The boss also likes to disappear. Imagine the boss scheduled a meeting with a client for 4 p.m. tomorrow, but didn’t tell you what it was about. You arrive at the venue at four, but the boss isn’t there. You try calling and messaging him on LINE and chat, but you can’t reach him. That’s just wonderful.

Mr. Chang: I’m a 30-dimensional person, while you’re all 2D beings~

I guess the boss was bullied before, and the pain from that time has kept him from moving beyond his memories of elementary school.

However, innocence is his greatest advantage.

There are no shortcomings, I suppose—he says so himself.

None

About six months ago, they suddenly called me during my vacation for an interview. I vaguely remember them being very good at making grand promises, and many of the things they talked about sounded quite unreasonable. They also kept complaining about their own employees... After discussing a full-time position, they ultimately asked the applicant to first work as an intern. Even after I declined, they continued pressuring me. I can only say that newcomers must be extremely careful.

1. Remote work

2. You can dream—the dreams woven by the boss

3. If you want to socialize quickly and learn what a terrible company is like, this is a great place

Requirements change endlessly. After a project has been running into problems for some time, the boss suddenly joins a meeting (the PM had previously nominally arranged for him to attend), starts looking for someone to blame, and complains about this and that. In the end, it is always the engineers’ fault, as if neither the boss nor the PM bears any responsibility. Many decisions were initially left to the engineers to make, followed by comments like, “It’s obvious you did this because you don’t understand.” When problems arise, they cannot coordinate a solution and instead keep letting the client change the requirements. The funniest part is that the PM often does not even know what needs to be changed.

I can only blame myself for being foolish. This was my first software engineering job after entering the workforce, and I chose this company. During the interview, the boss only bragged about how capable the employees were and how much you could learn. In reality, they simply could not hire more than a few senior or even somewhat experienced engineers and PMs, so they had to recruit students or people in their first jobs, using polished rhetoric to make it sound as though everyone here learns independently and that there are many talented people. As for why the company is mostly left with temporary workers, see the other reviews, which explain it in greater detail and with more specifics.

This is a warning to people who want to switch careers and become engineers: think carefully before joining this company. They are desperately short-staffed, but you should definitely consider why a company would be so short-staffed. Also, for anyone who wants to become a PM, please do not imagine that you can do the job without understanding technology at all. If you know nothing and can only create problems for the engineers beneath you, you will not gain much experience yourself; you will simply keep working inefficiently.

The company takes on many projects, and in reality it is indeed an outsourcing company. There is nothing wrong with outsourcing, but packaging it as data analysis and artificial intelligence is, bluntly put, deceptive. If you have experience in either of these two fields, do not listen no matter how much the boss boasts or how many ideas they claim to have.

At first, they make it sound very appealing—you can work remotely.

They endlessly agree to clients’ repeated revisions and requests. The boss never participates in meetings, so you have to resolve project issues yourself.

Clients come after you directly; you have to handle everything yourself, with no one to help communicate in between or shield you from strange requests.

The system is chaotic; the only advantage is the freedom.

1. Remote work

2. The projects are reasonably challenging

1. Lack of structure

2. The boss has no interest in management or in the existing projects. No matter what happens, they keep fobbing you off with plans for the future.

3. Chaotic operations lead to extremely low morale.

4. The boss has very poor interviewing skills (they excessively exaggerate candidates’ abilities and ignore the technical interviewers’ recommendations).

The boss will talk your ear off about how great and talented the people in the company are, and about the grand plans and projects they have where you can make use of your expertise.

There really was a great team here in the past, but whenever a project encountered difficulties, the boss—who had no understanding of how the project was being run—would suddenly intervene and start looking for people to berate. After the berating, the boss would disappear again, taking no interest in the project. After this happened repeatedly, everyone gradually started leaving.

The frontend manager once told me: “The smart people have all left first. I’m relatively foolish, so I still want to finish the project (Note 1), but given the situation, the next time the boss has an outburst (Note 2), I’ll be the target.” Some time later, I saw in the chat channel that the boss had started picking apart that manager’s work. Some people were hired at a high salary and then had their salary cut in half after a month. Others were assigned all kinds of managerial positions before they had even joined the company—“all kinds” of managerial positions. Since some work for the company is paid hourly, certain employees contribute nothing yet make a lot of money by attending meetings, while the people shouldering a pile of responsibilities are the ones who get berated by the boss.

Note 1: This was the project the boss claimed was the most important project in the entire company—Labelhub—but they were completely unfamiliar with how it operated.

https://www.ithome.com.tw/news/132295

Note 2: Every so often, the boss suddenly finds many reasons to attack team members. Many people have left this way; the methods are basically always the same: criticizing the architecture, excessive working hours, or poor cooperation. But the boss never actually manages the projects and has no real understanding of the situation. They also engage in all kinds of exhausting bombardment through posts. Extremely immature...

Remote work

Adding a few points from my own experience:

1. The boss berates employees in front of clients and does not dare take responsibility for mistakes.

2. The company's product is still at the demo stage, yet it often makes exaggerated claims.

3. The boss does not respect employees, is often late to or absent from meetings, and meetings are inefficient.

Remote work

Part-time is better than full-time

Full-time and part-time work are both remote, hourly positions

Benefits are limited to labor and health insurance and remote work

Little room for growth

Not many people to interact with

The company has no established systems

Working remotely means you don't have to see the boss, Chang Chia-chi.

It really must be mentioned that the boss's bad breath is completely unacceptable.

No advantages

The boss, Zhang Jiaqi, likes to make empty promises and is irresponsible.

Many things that a boss should take responsibility for and make decisions about have not been handled properly.

This company has no systems in place to speak of.

Project management, human resources, and software development are all chaotic and disorganized.

Nearly ten employees have left since May 2019.

Most of the people who remain at the company are part-time employees.

You will not make any progress at this company.

Those considering an interview should think twice.