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Read the community guidelines1. The colleagues in the meteorology team are all very kind and capable. Everyone is happy to help, and if you are willing to learn, you can learn a lot from your colleagues.
2. Free coffee and occasional group meals; an annual NT$30,000 subsidy for overseas employee trips, so we often travel abroad.
3. It is a very law-abiding company, and all overtime follows the Labor Standards Act.
4. The meteorology team supervisor is a very good person, highly professional and far-sighted. It is a great place to learn.
1. There is no SOP-based training for new employees in the meteorology team. As a result, when they encounter problems, they do not know whom to ask and may feel somewhat lost and helpless.
2. The salary is relatively low.
1. Most employees are in their 20s to 30s, so there is generally less of an age gap.
2. Eight or nine out of ten colleagues are both capable and kind. Basically, as long as you do not make overly serious mistakes, everyone is happy to help. If you are willing to learn, you can learn a lot from your colleagues.
3. Free coffee every day and occasional company gatherings (the regular ones are the spring banquet, Thanksgiving, and the year-end banquet). There is an annual subsidy of NT$30,000 for overseas employee trips. Overtime follows the Labor Standards Act, and business-trip expenses can be reimbursed. The benefits provided are not lacking, and employee benefits are fairly good.
4. If you are on the client side and see this company win a project bid, you will be very happy because they are genuinely easy to push around and can be asked to handle all kinds of tasks, big or small.
5. The company’s business is growing steadily, so there is no need to worry about running out of projects.
1. The company’s biggest problem is that the managers are essentially pulling in different directions, each acting independently. There is no leader capable of truly keeping all the managers in line, so a great deal of time and energy is spent on internal friction when getting things done.
2. Some managers lack professionalism. The incompetence of senior management wears out the front-line staff; simple matters are made complicated, and much of the time is spent on superficial work, resulting in inefficiency. In particular, the beauty or ugliness of something is highly subjective, yet far too much time is often spent on this.
3. The company only wants to please the client, often allowing the client to squeeze out at least several hundred thousand additional dollars’ worth of work. As a result, even after everything originally planned has long been completed, employees still have to do a large amount of extra work.
4. Salary growth is limited. Although there is a fixed year-end bonus and occasional profit sharing, overall annual compensation may be about the same as that of a civil service exam passer, while the workload may be several times greater.
5. How often you are assigned standby duty depends on the client. Sometimes they ask you to be on duty even when there is hardly any bad weather. If you are unlucky and happen to be rushing to finish a report, you may end up on duty so often that you feel like dying.
In summary, if you want to enjoy the experience of learning from and sharpening your skills with your peers, I would quite recommend coming here, especially for programming-related work. The prerequisite, however, is that you must be able to put up with unreasonable client demands and the various decisions made by certain managers that consume your time and energy.
The colleagues are very easy to get along with.
The workload is extremely heavy, the pay is unreasonable, the office environment is terrible, management has no empathy and only wants to please the clients, and employees are actually required to work shifts in typhoon conditions.
Most employees are very kind.
A small number of managers occupy their positions without contributing, lack ability, and are emotional. All of the company's job openings are under a particular manager whose surname is He, and the turnover rate is extremely high—eight employees were replaced in two years. The job responsibilities discussed during the interview were basically completely different from the actual job responsibilities. For anyone who genuinely wants to build their own skills, I absolutely do not recommend it; you will not learn anything.