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1. A small company with very incomplete systems and personnel organization. Everyone must wear multiple hats, and after joining, there is a very high chance of being assigned work that was not disclosed during the interview.
2. During the interview, you must “confirm repeatedly” the actual salary and benefits for the position to avoid discovering after joining that the company did not keep its word and that there is a discrepancy in pay.
3. The company’s weekly meetings are extremely inefficient and have devolved into the boss giving speeches about the past.
4. There is a serious divide among employees, with an obvious power imbalance between younger employees (ages 20–35) and managerial employees aged 40 and above.
5. The work evaluation system is incomplete and unreasonable. The fact that there would be work evaluations after joining was never disclosed during the interview, and not all employees are evaluated. Usually, only younger employees are evaluated (as noted in point 4).
6. Resigning is extremely difficult and employees are not treated with respect. Even when resignation is submitted in accordance with the Labor Standards Act, all supervisors hold individual meetings with the employee, and the matter is brought up for “public” discussion in meetings—effectively a public trial.
7. The company uses a relatively authoritarian management style (one person has the final say). Everything must go through the boss before a decision can be made, and employees’ ideas and creativity are not easily accepted by upper management.
8. Employees must pay a NT$100 late fee when they are late. The company does not explain how this money will be used or handled, which creates a poor impression.
9. Employees must take turns bringing the company’s garbage home for disposal.
The interviewer was very friendly. The interview was conducted in a conversational manner, and they said that the workload was not particularly heavy, allowing time to get up to speed, with no need for frequent overtime.
It is a very small, workshop-style company. The interviewer is a Taiwanese manager who does not stay in Taiwan for long and works together with the owner’s wife... Before starting work, employees must spend 15 minutes cleaning the workplace, and are also expected to help with tasks such as packaging e-commerce shipments. The company’s management and communication are problematic: 1. After notifying me that I had been accepted, they asked me to come in for one day of handover (but said it would not count as starting work). After I raised concerns and said I could start earlier to cooperate, they explained that it was only a short handover and would not take an entire day. 2. They notified me on Monday afternoon that I had been accepted and agreed to let me take some time to consider whether I could respond by Wednesday. (In fact, I gave a positive response before the end of work on Tuesday.) Although the company had agreed to this, it went back on its word and, before the end of work on Wednesday, changed its mind and said it had hired someone else. It really felt that the company had no credibility at all and showed no respect for job applicants!