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Read the community guidelinesThe advantage is that you have your own machine to operate, and the boss will provide guidance.
There are quite a lot of disadvantages. The salary is practically lower than the minimum wage. Be sure to ask about the salary before agreeing to start work; otherwise, the boss will quietly gloss over the issue. When you receive your salary, you will truly be shocked. The boss is quite verbally abusive and rather arrogant, overly confident in himself, and does nothing but complain. He also secretly complains about customers and his own employees. In addition, he installs cameras inside the company and secretly watches them when he is away.
His graphic design skills are poor, although he is fairly strong in packaging structure. Do not be fooled by the seemingly friendly demeanor during the interview; after starting work, you will discover that everything is completely different from what you expected.....
1. Although the company is small, it has a lot of equipment and a wide selection of paper materials.
2. The boss is very good at design and was previously a highly capable employee.
3. Very willing to give newcomers opportunities (very willing to teach, but also relatively strict).
1. The salary is very low. During the interview, you really need to ask clearly how much it is; otherwise, the question may be skillfully avoided. (It is the minimum wage, unless you help increase the company’s income—in which case your own salary may also change.)
2. The boss is very confident in his own abilities, so the company’s equipment is fairly good; you just need to bring your own drawing tablet.
3. Characteristics of a small, newly established company: The boss is very busy and personally supervises the other designers (recently, it seems they have been recruiting senior staff, so things may be different from before). The workload is not heavy (the boss writes proposals and takes on projects himself). Therefore, the company does not earn much, so the benefits and salary are naturally not very good.
On the one hand, the workload is light; on the other hand, he seems more interested in working on his own projects, so the boss says he believes the trend is to develop the company’s own products.
4. He likes to complain that he did not learn much at school. However, university is not high school, where you passively accept everything; if you want something, you need to know how to make use of available resources. (When I was there previously, his employees also liked talking about these things, so they had common topics of conversation.)
5. He is the type who is relatively guarded around employees. (Perhaps he wants to develop something and apply for a patent himself, and worries that an employee might take it, but this does not feel very good.)
Perhaps I am particularly concerned that the salary was not clarified at the beginning. Also, the boss’s personality was not quite what I initially thought it would be (he seemed friendlier during the interview). Overall, I did not have a very favorable impression. However, it still depends on what each person considers important; what I have written is only for reference. (He is also, in his own way, a hardworking boss.)