惇陽工程顧問有限公司

Let me offer a little defense of the company. After seeing the corporate environment shared by previous reviewers, I became quite curious and decided to visit. Overall, my interview experience was fairly normal. Regarding salary, the interviewing manager simply copied my expected salary from my self-assessment form onto another sheet of paper without expressing any opinion. As for company benefits and employee training, the manager did not introduce them proactively, but after I asked, it became clear that the company did not have any particularly attractive systems in either area. Overall, the interview process I experienced was quite normal.

When I first entered the company's workplace, it looked pretty good. At the front desk was a quite young female administrative employee. After asking my name, she handed me the self-assessment form for the relevant position. Once I completed it, she took me to the "meeting room" and notified the manager who would interview me. After waiting for about two minutes, a male manager who did not look particularly old entered the meeting room carrying a small stack of documents.

Let me first describe the meeting room. It had a translucent sliding door resembling frosted glass. If the administrative employee who led me there had turned around at the moment I first saw what the meeting room was really like, she might have caught the brief flash of surprise in my eyes XD

In short, there is only one word for it: "small."

The entrance was, by my estimate, no more than two meters wide, and the small room was also about two meters deep. Three round stools were tucked under the table. At the back of the room was a platform at a suitable height for sitting that could also hold belongings, but because a landline telephone was placed on it, I only noticed after looking around that, apart from the office chair by the entrance, the other seats were stools.

I will skip the interview process itself. It was generally about verifying my level of personal ability, and I could provide relevant work samples to support my abilities. During the interview, because the meeting room had no computer equipment and the laptop did not have a network cable socket, the interviewing manager ran out twice to get equipment, appearing somewhat hurried.

Finally, let me quietly reveal a piece of firsthand information I picked up:

The interviewing manager's surname was J. Perhaps this was the good manager mentioned by previous reviewers, or perhaps a manager who took over later—it is hard to say. The department has three managers in total, with each manager overseeing approximately two to three people.

Taking a rough look around, the two office areas had approximately 24 or 25 people in total. They all appeared to be young, with no one over 40. Based on the employees I saw, I would roughly estimate the average age at around 25 to 30. From this, the speculation that the turnover rate may be high seems to have some credibility.

From my conversation with the department manager who interviewed me, it was vaguely suggested that the final decision-making authority for hiring does not lie with the department manager, but with the administrative department—or perhaps more accurately, the management department.

Compared with my other interview experiences in the same field, the office atmosphere felt somewhat dull and stagnant (based on the emotions conveyed by the interviewing manager and administrative employee). This is merely my subjective impression and is provided for reference only.

The interview environment was quite good

The company does not provide shuttle buses for commuting

1. Great work environment. Colleagues almost always keep their heads down and work, like strangers to one another. The company pays overtime, which is very humane. However, once you claim overtime pay, you will be called into the “glass house” for an FBI-style interrogation. It is guaranteed to improve your ability to react under pressure; after that, you won’t even be afraid to go into the Investigation Bureau for coffee.

2. The starting salary is quite reasonable, allowing you to fully immerse yourself in the nostalgic atmosphere of Taiwan in the 1970s. Of course, there are opportunities for raises. But after waiting a year, as an online video said, they won’t even give you NT$100. If you are patient, you should endure another two or three years. Perhaps you might get a NT$1,000 raise—but this is meant to teach you gratitude, thrift, and the importance of money. Afterward, you definitely won’t dare spend money recklessly.

3. Although it is an engineering consulting company, it actually does everything. In particular, anyone intending to enter politics should come here, because your skill at currying favor and flattering others will greatly improve, helping you get along in officialdom later on.

4. The work environment is extremely safe. The company has thoughtfully installed surveillance cameras from different angles. You can safely leave your wallet and phone on the desk, because no one would dare take them.

5. The company undergoes major rearrangements from time to time, so you don’t need to worry about your work performance being affected by feng shui. Therefore, if your work still fails to meet your supervisor’s expectations, just blame your own bazi.

6. Joining Donyang is the best opportunity to learn independence. You will never encounter the trouble of needing to ask questions at work, because managers and other senior supervisors are only in the office about one day a week. And even when they are there, the odds of them “making things worse” are usually higher than the odds of them helping. This gives you complete freedom to apply what you have learned.

7. The company’s employee turnover rate is only slightly lower than the central bank’s money turnover rate. The main purpose is to save employees the cost of taking a “How to Win Friends and Influence People” course, because new colleagues are constantly arriving to introduce themselves to you.

What a wonderful company!

You can fully apply what you have learned.

You can constantly meet new colleagues.

You can have surveillance cameras protect your personal safety.

You can cultivate a thrifty personality that treats money as dearly as life itself.

You can realize that apparently making yourself stupid is the only way to become a manager.

There are absolutely no drawbacks. Anyone who does not come to work is simply foolish.

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1. The interview process was extremely disrespectful:

A. I applied for a landscape-related position, but the receptionist gave me a competency assessment related to urban planning to complete, so I could only answer “I don’t know” to everything.

B. The female interviewer inexplicably knew that the form was incorrect, but only asked me to fill out a landscape-related form again after the interview was over.

C. Throughout the interview, she kept emphasizing that they were looking for a comrade-in-arms. I heard it so many times I could practically grow calluses on my ears. She also repeatedly emphasized that if someone quit after working for only a day or two, it would be a loss for the company.

D. Perhaps they really hoped I would say something like, “Sorry, I’m not suitable for this job.” They kept hypocritically asking, with feigned concern, “Have you thought through your life plan?” and “Are you sure you want to pursue this path?”

E. When asking about salary, they first hinted that I shouldn’t write too high a figure, saying that if I wrote too high, there would be no point in continuing the discussion. Although they didn’t give me too much trouble after I wrote it down, saying that to me when asking me to provide a figure was very disrespectful.

Perhaps people applying for this job should preferably not be beginners; otherwise, they may experience all kinds of discomfort. If you want the thrill of experiencing the darker side of society, you can go for it.

Free shoulder and neck massages

Some people may simply not understand what basic workplace boundaries are.

For some people, their understanding of “interacting with coworkers” seems to stop at:

1. Your shoulders can be checked on at any time

2. The waist is a temporary communication zone

3. Putting an arm around someone’s shoulder is just an “expression of enthusiasm”

4. Sneaking up on you in the pantry to give you an unexpected surprise

And they will even add:

“We’re so close and have such a good relationship.”

It is hard not to wonder:

Why, in the workplace, do we still need policies to repeatedly remind people that

not everyone likes being touched? This is called workplace sexual harassment.

Even now, thinking about it still makes my scalp tingle. You’re not young anymore, and you have children of your own—you should understand the importance of putting yourself in someone else’s shoes, right? What would you think if it were your daughter who experienced this? How would you feel?

Oh, and one more thing: the loud chewing noises you make while eating really sound like a construction site. I don’t know whether you can’t hear yourself, are doing it deliberately, or have spent so much time at construction sites that your ears no longer work properly.

Oh, but I never said who it was 🤭

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Today, I’m doing my small part to help this website benefit more people, and I also hope everyone will share their experiences as much as possible.

This company has offices in several locations across Taiwan. Staff turnover is very high, the company complies fully with the Labor Standards Act, and overtime is paid.

1. In my opinion, the bosses treat employees fairly well; at least, they don’t put on airs.

2. The “colleagues” around me and employees with some seniority are easy to get along with, possibly because there isn’t much of an age gap (around ±10 years).

3. You can learn a great many skills here—the entire skill tree gets maxed out. In other words, the work is varied and is suitable for advancing to a higher position.

4. Here, you can definitely see the true face of society and understand why your parents used to complain so much about work.

5. You don’t have to watch the boss’s mood before leaving work; everyone is very free.

He is electricity, he is light, he is the one and only walking disaster—I’m only talking about him. He is my super thunder~

I sincerely advise everyone: if you encounter a good supervisor, stick with them; if you encounter a bad supervisor, please, run for your life—aaahhh!

1. He has procrastination issues. What he does best is come up with excuses and use his silver tongue to delay things. Even when something could be finished early, he won’t hurry to get it done.

2. Whether the phone call is work-related or not, personal or business, he can chat until the end of time and breeze through the whole day.

3. Because he is senior, the boss indulges him. Moreover, the person in question is clever and cunning—a high-level player at surviving in society. I truly bow to his skills.

4. He puts many cases under his own name, but actually hands the work within those cases to others. He is, in every sense of the word, a master of taking credit by name only.

5. No one wants to ask him questions, because the fishing rod you get back is full of holes and covered in ants, giving rise to even more questions.

6. Compared with him, the others have more shoulders to bear responsibility. He is unable to unite the team or inspire solidarity among colleagues (although there is a resistance movement).

7. He is good at needlessly increasing everyone’s pressure and has absolutely no ability to guide people; all he has are various grand principles.

I’ve said too much, but there is still a lot I haven’t shared. I hope you pray to every god before joining, as that might help you avoid being plagued by disaster.

Let's talk about a very interesting company. A long, long time ago, I read a forum user's account describing this company as containing a rich “insect ecosystem.” What kind of little world could accommodate so many fascinating insects? So, with a spirit of adventure, I went to the world of insects to investigate.

According to the forum user's description, besides the two main characters—the Insect King and Insect Queen—the insect world, of course, could not be without its most important supporting characters: the Coffee Bug and the 99 Bug. Through the processes of interviewing, reporting for duty, introductions, and so on, I finally stepped into the insect world. It turns out that the insect ecosystem had already changed from decentralized management to centralized management. Around the Insect King and Insect Queen, several indispensable insect supervisors had also been added: the Trouble-Making Bug, the Bad-Breath Bug, and the Big-Headed Bug. I may share more when I have time. First, let's talk about the overall advantages of this ecosystem:

1. The times are moving forward, so cutting-edge technology is essential. In order to keep up with trends, the insect world spent a huge amount of money investing in a supposedly intelligent working-hours recording system. It also went to great lengths to install multiple surveillance cameras throughout its ecosystem, hoping that the ecosystem could keep pace with the times and expand, while better protecting the insects within it. Let's start with the working-hours system. This technology product is truly extraordinary: it lets the insects clock in by powering on when they arrive at work. But that is not even the most impressive part. It is also integrated with an app, allowing the Insect King and Insect Queen to keep an eye on everything inside and outside, constantly worrying about what the larvae are doing—whether they are feeling sad, whether they should take a break, or whether they have gotten lost and deviated from the planned route. Through the power of technology, the Insect King and Insect Queen only need to open a screen to view the images displayed on each “screen,” then calculate how to take care of the insects so that they can grow quickly and bring greater benefits to the company. Unfortunately, the public restrooms are someone else's territory, and the Insect King and Insect Queen were unable to successfully reclaim it for their own use, so they could only give up that territory.

2. Here, the Insect Queen will teach you how to save money at an entirely new level. “Care for trees, protect the Earth—the insects have a responsibility” is the ecosystem's primary operating objective. Here, the insects are provided with extremely thin and breathable no-name toilet paper (that's right, the kind used to wipe your mouth at small eateries). A “refill exchange” program has also been implemented: as the name suggests, bring in the old casing to apply for a pen refill. If you need to purchase a “brand-new” one, follow the procedure to apply and explain the reason and intended use. If you lack a pen holder on your desk, don't worry—the ecosystem recycles PET bottles, and you can choose from various sizes. They are practical, environmentally friendly, and can even be customized. In addition, when using the printer, remember that you may only print in black and white, two A4 landscape pages per sheet, and double-sided. Although these are all minor matters, they are enough to remind us of the virtue of frugality. ""Please remember"": as long as you remember the care the company has shown you, you can create even greater benefits for the company.

3. Here, you must accept the cruel fact that “limited availability” is always a reality. Learning professional drafting software such as Adobe products other than Photoshop and AI, or AutoCAD, is definitely not because they cannot afford it; it is simply because the Insect King and Insect Queen feel that the usage rate is not high. Instead, they educate the insects to make good use of communication and coordination, and warn them that waiting is a virtue. These are all part of the learning process. Therefore, the insects must independently learn a second professional skill, use Microsoft Office products such as PowerPoint and Word—or the built-in Paint program—to create and submit these beautiful and professional diagrams on time. It must be emphasized once again that the insect world is “absolutely committed to supporting正版 software.”

4. Besides the ecosystem's overarching principle of “clock in when you start work and take responsibility when you finish,” “mutual assistance and cooperation” among the various insect areas within the ecosystem is also very important. Daily drafting is basic work, but given the cruel reality of limited software availability, the Insect Queen sympathizes with the insects whose coordination efforts have failed. The overtime system is open to the insects at all times. Simply submit an approved overtime application before the scheduled end of the workday, explain the work completed during today's working hours, estimate the overtime hours, and list the work to be handled. After the supervisor approves it, submit it according to the procedure. The Insect Queen will carefully review every item and show concern about whether the insects have actually completed their progress.

5. In order to cultivate employees with well-rounded abilities and give you good competitiveness outside the company, you will be expected to write copy, serve as a social media editor, do photography, translate into English, handle typesetting and design, design websites, create animations, produce videos, and plan events. If you can write a little code, even better—you will become a “(social) environmental interdisciplinary technician.” Why “interdisciplinary”? Because you need to be involved in a wide range of skills to be able to compete with others outside the company. All of the above is intended by the Insect King and Insect Queen to train the insects to work independently, develop exceptionally high stress tolerance, and continually improve their own abilities. Once the insects possess these skills, your possible salary increase—from 0 to 1,000—and promotion speed will be determined according to your educational background, everyday work attitude, project performance, work experience, and so on.

Now that you've read this far, do you have a better understanding of the insect world? The mysteries of the insect realm must be experienced personally to appreciate how fascinating they are. Sharing this with all the eager explorers out there.

Performing normally; no improvements needed

No need to worry about someone putting something in your food when you store it in the refrigerator; the surveillance cameras keep watch for you 24/7.

The entire company is covered—only the restroom is the least safe place, as there are no surveillance cameras to protect you.

During the interview, it was agreed that the salary would be over 30,000. I was informed in advance that during the three-month probationary period, it might be under 30,000, and I accepted that.

However, after the probationary period, the salary was still not over 30,000.

I was repeatedly picked on. In the morning, I was told I was impolite for replacing greetings with a smile.

Constantly assigned tasks that were not part of my responsibilities.

Private matters were shared everywhere without the person's consent.

Computers cannot be password-protected.

Personal belongings must be put away.

Even if you write your name on something, it may be taken for communal use without your consent.

Overall, working here is not very pleasant mentally or physically, but safety is definitely guaranteed.

Cameras everywhere.

1. The staff turnover rate is extremely high, so you can constantly meet new people.

2. The bosses are very concerned about the safety of employees’ lives and property. There are surveillance cameras and audio monitoring devices everywhere. The purpose of installing the audio monitoring devices is to prevent thieves from coming to steal things, so that every sound made by the thieves can be recorded!!

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1. Here, you can observe all kinds of insect ecology.

2. It trains you to face the ever-changing vicissitudes of life in a timely manner.

3. You can focus completely on the computer and work on the projects that are actually your responsibility—let me say that again, the projects that are actually your responsibility.

4. Your colleagues will teach you how to spend three days doing something that could have been solved in one day.

5. The senior employees of the Glass House will teach you the principle of turning one thing into two.

6. The senior employees always give you only rough outlines, giving you plenty of room to exercise your creativity and squander your talent on planning drawings.

7. It helps you cultivate the temperament to believe that waiting is a virtue.

8. It is a place where you can learn all about the dark side of society, while cultivating a positive, optimistic spirit.

9. A company that significantly increases a hospital’s output may also have partnerships with hospitals.

1. About the Coffee Insect:

(1). After working for three hours, it starts grinding coffee beans, brewing pour-over coffee, and wandering around, while earning more than 40K a month.

(2). It often teases female colleagues. According to the Insect’s explanation, this so-called teasing means that it cares about you—absolutely do not misunderstand. In particular, when it calls and asks the colleagues around a female employee about her recent situation or similar matters, that is merely concern. Let me say that again: it is merely concern.

(3). It often holds a lollipop in its mouth and tells its colleagues, “I’m going to sprint now. Don’t disturb me for the moment.” (By ordinary standards, this probably feels a little chuuni, right?) It then lowers its head and works seriously on a presentation. But when you look at the presentation, you can imagine that you could finish it in an hour, whereas the Insect needs 24 times as long to complete it. Of course, that does not include overtime. This absolutely does not mean that its abilities are poor—really, it does not.

(4). The Coffee Insect is very popular with the Glass Men and Women. They ask the Coffee Insect’s opinion about every matter, large or small. Naturally, the Coffee Insect is also very happy to give them its “insect”-conceived opinions—oh yes, insect, not human.

(5). The Coffee Insect has excellent lung capacity. It often loudly tells everyone in the pet box of an office how unhappy it is. Occasionally, you can even hear profanities or vulgar expressions. At such times, you should be understanding, because it has lung capacity but no EQ.

2. About the Ninety-Nine Insect:

(1). Its desk is often covered with all kinds of “ethanol”-based beverages. Of course, it absolutely never drinks at work; they are all for decoration. They really are all for decoration.

(2). The Ninety-Nine Insect is quite similar in nature to a myna bird. It often repeats what its subordinates have said, of course in front of its superior. Myna birds always recognize their master.

(3). Occasionally, it gives you rather unclear instructions and makes you cast a wide net on a large scale, but the solution it happened to discuss with its superior may not include any of the options in that net, giving you an opportunity to broaden your horizons and absorb a wide range of knowledge.

3. As for the supervisor who is comparatively normal, they take very good care of people and subordinates. Their only shortcoming is that they look after only their own people. If you are not a direct subordinate or a confidant, you just happen to fall outside that scope. At that point, you can only fend for yourself.

4. The boss often selectively forgets what they themselves have said or done. It is “selective” amnesia, okay~ I think the boss must be testing everyone’s memory, seeing whether we listened carefully to what they said. After all, a common problem among modern people is a lack of concentration. The boss is truly taking great pains and deserves praise.

(For example, if you discussed a salary of 32K during the interview but actually received 28K, you absolutely must not go ask the boss, “Why don’t you remember that we agreed on 30K?” The boss will only use the phrases “weathering difficult times together” and “find comrades-in-arms” to shut you up, while putting on an attitude of “If you don’t like it, do whatever you want.”)

5. You often receive urgent assignments, but they are not urgent assignments from your own projects. Usually, they are urgent assignments from the Coffee Insect or the “partner company” upstairs. These so-called urgent assignments are usually given to you in the afternoon, with instructions such as “It’s needed this afternoon” or “It’s needed by 10 tomorrow morning”—and they are urgent assignments that you cannot work on until you wait for the shared computer.

6. Everyone from three offices has to wait to use one shared computer (setting aside the fact that it still uses pirated software). You have to queue. Remember, waiting is a virtue. If an Insect cuts in line, you still have to smile and let it go first, because it will tell you that this is an urgent assignment.

7. Some larvae follow behind the Insect King and Insect Queen, diligently offering praise. You can even see the larvae’s “praise” in every nook and cranny, large and small.

8. As long as you remember this while working here: the boss is an extremely capable planner; the boss is an extremely capable grand planner; the boss is an extremely capable grand planner. Never question their expertise, or you may be sent to the Glass House for re-education or something like that.

9. Relations among colleagues are extremely pleasant—truly that kind of extremely pleasant. For quite a long time, people have had to reintroduce themselves every month or two. I think this must be one of the boss’s trials for us, giving us an opportunity and a stage to practice our speaking skills and continually improve our social abilities. The boss is truly taking great pains.

10. Even when you are in different companies, you can still hear Sheng X, Zhu X, You X, Kang X, Li X, and several other companies all saying in unison that they are people from this company. They are different companies, but their personnel are of one mind. I have never seen such a united company, and some even have connections with an association. Such a united company with such extensive connections is truly worth learning from! It is absolutely not some kind of network of vested interests! Absolutely not!

11. The boss is incredibly effective! You often see the head walk directly into the office of some official at some bureau or department of the New Taipei City Government to discuss matters directly, and before long, projects come knocking on their own. As for what category this behavior belongs to, that remains unknown.

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I interviewed there last year and wanted to share my experience for everyone’s reference.

My basic information is as follows: I graduated with a master’s degree in land administration from a national university, but I had already been working for two years before pursuing my master’s degree. At the time, my salary was 29K, and I had also handled quite a few cases—approximately nine in total.

The interview was conducted by a female manager. The first thing she said was: “We don’t pay overtime. Everyone here is on a responsibility-based system. We’re looking for comrades-in-arms—people who are willing to go into battle and fight alongside us. So we’re looking for warriors who are mentally prepared and ready.” She continued: “Our salaries have a RANIG level system, and each level has its own responsibilities. If you’re at 23K–25K, your responsibilities are to handle clerical work, organization, and basic data processing. That’s the level for an ordinary university graduate who has just graduated. At 25K–28K, you should be able to handle and organize the chapters of a service proposal without requiring the manager to filter and check every detail. At 29K–32K, you should be able to independently handle an entire proposal, including its illustrations and so on. At 32K–36K, that’s the manager-level salary range. You’re expected to take full responsibility for a case and give presentations yourself. For someone at the 29K level, we might occasionally let them give a presentation, but if you’re at the 32K level, you must be capable of presenting on your own. We’ll only stand beside you and watch, or we may not even need to attend—you should be able to handle everything independently. Where do you think you belong?”

When I was about to respond, she looked over my résumé and said, “I think you should be at 29K.” However, I had written 32K as my expected base salary for a master’s degree. I told her that I didn’t think 32K was particularly high, and she immediately replied: “Do you think your abilities are at that level? I looked at your experience. You’ve handled quite a few cases, but that doesn’t necessarily mean the standards at your previous company were the same as ours…” and so on. During the discussion, she said something even more astonishing: “All right, since you insist so strongly on 32K, then we’ll go with that figure. We’ll adjust it after your probationary period. Whether it goes up or down will depend on you.”

I was so speechless at the time that I only remember the parts that left the deepest impression on me. When I walked out of her office—which had glass partitions—I saw a small area where people were working. The atmosphere felt very oppressive, so I immediately left the company.

Overall, it was a very strange and uncomfortable experience. However, this was only my personal interview experience, so I’m sharing it for everyone’s reference.