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Read the community guidelinesWorking hours are very flexible, and taking time off does not require much paperwork.
There is a snack cabinet with unlimited snacks, and free lunch every Friday.
The female manager is terrifying. She has an explosive temper and uses targeted language very skillfully when correcting people. She seems to think that everyone under her should be able to read her mind. Basically, none of the people she manages stay for long, but the boss also lets her personality go unchecked. Maybe it is because she is very good at maintaining appearances?
Because there is no clocking in or out, supervisors take it for granted that being busy means working overtime, whether that means an extra hour or two or working until the early hours of the morning. They will still keep assigning you work after you leave, and there is no overtime pay.
It is clearly an advertising company, but neither the manager nor the boss pays attention to current affairs, and their thinking is still stuck in a very distant era. However, since the major client is Microsoft, and the people at Microsoft are just as rigid, perhaps that is why they have been able to work together for so long?
Pros
Monthly birthday celebrations, Monday movie day
They used to hold weekly meetings that wasted time and life. I don't know whether this bad habit still exists.
Managers require progress updates every hour, and there may be instances of unexpected overtime.
They are very considerate toward business planning, but extremely unfriendly toward designers. Designers need an even better mood to work and create.
No wonder this company can only take on unreasonable clients and lousy projects, with endless revisions.
Monthly birthday celebrations, Monday movie days, and a relaxed work atmosphere
Because the company often takes on urgent, tedious projects from Microsoft, with clients who frequently make arbitrary changes, employees often have to work emergency overtime until one or two in the morning. There is no overtime pay, and employee turnover is high.
The person in charge, whose surname is Fu, would inflate reported figures in employees’ salary income or borrow people from nearby businesses to file tax reports under their names. This had been going on for years, and most colleagues either did not notice or did not care. After it was discovered, I asked him to correct it, but I still did not receive a corrected withholding statement or any further handling of the matter.
In addition, when an employee was laid off, the company tried to refuse to pay severance pay (I secretly made an audio recording as evidence). Afterwards, it deliberately wrote reasons detrimental to the employee’s future job search on the certificate of employment, violating Article 19 of the Labor Standards Act: “When an employer issues a certificate of service to a worker, apart from recording the period of employment, type of work, position at the enterprise, wages, and matters the worker requests to be recorded based on the facts, it may not record any matters detrimental to the worker.”
Sharing my experience as an advertising account executive over one and a half years:
1. Most of the company’s clients are existing clients (both large and small), so there is no need to do additional business development.
2. The atmosphere among colleagues is harmonious. The boss is very nice and respects employees’ suggestions. If you are temporarily late or need to take leave, there is generally no problem as long as your work is not delayed (there will be no salary deduction or intentional difficulty).
3. As long as you are willing to learn and ask questions, you can basically learn quite a lot.
4. Flexible working hours: start between 9 and 10 a.m. and finish between 6 and 7 p.m. There is no clocking in or out, and the one-and-a-half-hour break is ample.
5. The boss does not judge your work attitude based on how much overtime you work; getting the job done well is what matters most.
There is occasional overtime (when a project is urgent, you may need to stay an extra hour or two, but there is no overtime pay).
However, it is generally not too bad. If there is really nothing to do, you do not have to stay just to put on a show; staying means there is genuinely unfinished work.