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Read the community guidelinesThe only advantage is probably that the expatriate salary is... okay?
1. There are many Taiwanese staff at the mainland China company, but usually they fight among themselves—it's like free calls within the network and mutual slaughter.
2. The CEO's assistant and the SCM deputy manager are good friends; when they join forces to target someone, they can be said to wield unchecked power.
3. They say expatriates receive meals, accommodation, and airfare, but the dormitory is tiny, old, and run-down, with so many rules that I thought I was in the military. Return-trip airfare to Taiwan is also not fully subsidized, and the rules for transportation to the airport are rather strange.
4. The office atmosphere is extremely strange. Basically, they PUA new hires, especially that person in SCM...
In short, anyone with prior expatriate experience should absolutely not come here and waste their time and life.
1. Family-style management; the company cares about every aspect of your life.
2. People-oriented, with everything being very flexible; policies and procedures are open to individual interpretation.
3. There is strength in numbers, so there are many office cliques.
4. You can learn PUA techniques.
5. How you conduct yourself is more important than how you work; as long as you know how to manage upward, everything will be fine.
The only downside is that there are too many advantages.