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Read the community guidelines1. Very generous with meals during business trips; flexible working conditions.
1. Makes grand promises and claims to be short of money; there are no bonuses or salary-increase system. The boss believes the company would go under if they were paid.
2. Employees have to maintain the office environment themselves; the office building shares very small trash and recycling bins.
3. The boss takes care of everything externally and tells employees to handle it.
4. Technology is limited to plugging in cables for programming and updates; the quality of the hardware remains to be seen.
5. There is no overtime pay, regardless of whether overtime exceeds the maximum limit.
6. Puts family members in key positions.
7. Employees in any position may be assigned to on-site engineering support and also asked to drive (what about the employees’ lives?).
1. Work is fairly flexible, and you can wear headphones and do your own thing.
2. There is no clock-in system; you fill out your own attendance sheet. Working hours are flexible—arrive early and you can leave early.
1. A few of the gossipy female coworkers treat the office like their own home and chat loudly, which is not very friendly to engineers who need quiet.
2. Private matters will be turned into gossip.
3. The boss is weak-willed and emotional.
4. The boss’s wife plays favorites. She completely ignores or disrespects employees who have no value to her or whom she thinks are difficult to control, and she will quickly fire you (that happened to me⋯
5. The boss’s wife has a female assistant who is a sycophant. She only acts enthusiastic when the boss’s wife is there, and otherwise only fawns over a certain male engineer.
6. There is no overtime pay; everything is treated as a responsibility-based arrangement. At most, you can apply for a dinner subsidy when working late.
7. The boss often likes to emotionally blackmail employees, saying that the company makes no money, or else painting grand promises. I have never received a bonus for any project @@
8. The boss will ask employees without an engineering background to provide construction-related support⋯ with no overtime pay 😊 It is hard to imagine how he views the employees’ lives.
9. The bonuses for the three traditional holidays are practically nonexistent.