昊博國際服務有限公司

The colleagues are easy to get along with, and the team is young.

The benefits mentioned during the interview were basically all resources from the startup park. There were almost no benefits that could genuinely be called startup benefits. What also requires extra attention is that the job duties described during the interview were completely different from the actual duties after joining. Some people interviewed for Sales but ended up doing PM/SA work; some interviewed for backend engineer positions but ended up working as full-stack engineers as well as MIS, and so on—the list goes on. This is basically not a problem in a startup, but the problem is that the duties were changed directly without prior communication, with the expectation that you should accept everything wholesale.

The technical team is almost completely dissolved. There is a reason the turnover rate is so high.

The boss does not understand technology, but nevertheless did not listen to any of the technical department’s opinions about the projects. From beginning to end, the boss’s opinions basically determined everything, while the engineers’ opinions were not important.

Also, because the boss does not understand technology, they nevertheless believed the opinions of an external technical consultant who had no actual contact with the company’s technical operations. The boss forcibly changed the languages originally used for development (NodeJs, React) and the projects to Java development, and parachuted an industry lecturer into the team. Because the lecturer’s “soft skills” were not very good, a meeting directly angered the main R&D staff member to the point that they walked out of the conference room, triggering the dissolution of the entire team.

Finally, as described below, this is a startup company with the mindset of a traditional manufacturing enterprise. The freedom and equal communication that startups value most are basically nonexistent. As long as the boss sees you sitting at your desk, that is considered proof that you are working. Even veteran employees were unsuccessful when they previously tried to negotiate remote work. At its core, the company simply does not trust employees’ ability to self-discipline, and views engineers as all-purpose manpower. It is even better if they can also take on PM/SA/QA/MIS/Sales duties, and so on. If you want to challenge your limits, you can give it a try.

P.S. The industry lecturer’s classic line shouted during a meeting—“Do you think I’m an idiot?”—still rings in my ears to this day. Their communication style, which does not let people properly explain themselves, completely changed my perception of industry lecturers and taught me a valuable lesson. I am very grateful.

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Traditional industry bones