友華科技股份有限公司

The company uses Japanese 70% of the time, allowing you to gain practical Japanese experience. English and Chinese are not understood by the Japanese staff.

The salary level is average. The benefits mentioned on recruitment websites—including transportation allowances, meal allowances, overtime pay, missed-meal compensation, and the three-festival bonuses—are all included in the salary. The contract states that everything is included, so they can essentially be regarded as nonexistent. If they must be considered benefits, then after deducting them, the salary is lower than the overall average for new graduates. Transportation allowances may even be deducted for workdays on which you are absent.

During New Year and other holiday periods, attendance allowances are deducted, and no attendance pay is provided. Working hours are 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Under normal circumstances, everyone works until around 6:10 p.m., because overtime pay and missed-meal compensation would otherwise apply. If business needs require you to travel to a more distant client and you are still away after working hours, the commuting time on the return trip cannot be reported as overtime. The company explicitly states that no overtime pay is provided because no labor is performed during that time. For example, traveling from Kaohsiung to Taipei at 5:30 p.m. does not count as overtime, and the trip is usually even later.

The three-festival bonuses are included in the salary, so cash is paid first and then deducted.

The perfect-attendance bonus is already included in the salary. If you do not have perfect attendance, NT$1,000 is deducted; both sick leave and personal leave also result in deductions.

The language-course subsidy is limited to internal language courses. External courses are not covered; university courses and private tutoring are also not eligible. The subsidy appears to cover half the cost. If a teacher is invited to teach at the company, the cost is divided among the participants according to the number of attendees.

The internal atmosphere is fairly good, with more female colleagues.

The company benefits and the Japanese employees' attitudes are unfriendly. Turnover is very high, and newcomers account for approximately 30–40% of the entire workforce. The work environment is relatively lacking in structure.

High usage of Japanese.

Although it is called a multinational corporation, it is actually a family-style management system characterized by inexplicable, constantly changing policies, with supervisors freely making decisions according to their whims, leaving employees at a loss.

Employees are frequently sent abroad to work under vague contracts, after which ambiguous provisions in the contracts are interpreted from the company’s perspective to exploit employees.

Because management is lax, most work only requires the superficial skill of flattering PLP.

Work responsibilities are poorly defined, and meetings are lengthy and inefficient.

Management only cares about the format of forms and does not care about their content.

Changes to salary payment dates can be made at a supervisor’s discretion without consulting employees.

Overtime is frequently unpaid; neither field nor office staff receive the legally required overtime pay.

On business-trip travel days, employees are deliberately required to travel on weekends or holidays without compensatory leave or overtime pay.

Even when leave is requested in accordance with company regulations, supervisors may make things difficult at their discretion or even refuse to approve it.

Even when there is an emergency at home, supervisors may inhumanely force employees to go on business trips, causing them emotional trauma.

The annual salary agreed upon before joining the company may still be arbitrarily changed under the pretext of modifying the management system.

For field staff, return travel after working hours during field assignments cannot be reported as overtime, and they must drive the means of transportation back to the company for safekeeping; they are not allowed to end their workday directly at the field assignment location.

All types of bonuses are included in the salary, so cash is provided initially and then deducted on payday.

The perfect-attendance bonus is included in the salary. NT$1,000 is deducted for failing to maintain perfect attendance, and deductions are also made for sick leave and personal leave.

Management-level employee J openly accepts kickbacks from clients and causes significant harm to the company’s interests, yet there is no oversight mechanism to stop it.

The management system and regulations are merely for reference; everything is handled according to the supervisor’s whims.

The turnover rate is high, and newcomers account for approximately half of the workforce.

Japanese employees have unfriendly attitudes and look down extremely strongly on Taiwanese people.