ASUS: In Search Of Disposable Labor - Recensione dipendente - Dipendente anonimo presso ASUS

If you read other reviews, the key takeaway is that the company has poor management and the culture is super Taiwan focused (salary position, mandatory overtime daily with no pay, expectations to put work ahead of personal life, favors Mandarin speakers). If you do decide to ignore those warnings, be prepared for more hurdles. From personal anecdotes, the probationary period was basically no personal training on how to understand basic job functions and to struggle with tasks so you learn how to "ask for help" and get used to kissing up to upper management. When you ask basic questions as to why things in the department are run this way, you get answers like "it's Asus" or "that's how I was taught." When you do get accustomed to the "it's Asus" life, you have few options: 1) brown nose to upper management to create a promotion, 2) do as your told and stick to a miserable life at Asus, or 3) leave the company for greener pastures. Regardless of what you chose, if you stay at Asus, you will realize in the long run that HQ controls everything, management only sees you as a metric to their reports to HQ, and your direct manager will let you know you are replaceable should you decide to speak up. I've tried to combat the silly, archaic system for a while only to be told that "California is an at-will employment state" and I had other options available to me (basically be fired). Meanwhile all the suck ups to upper management who used to work in Best Buy retail get promoted and establishing a very high school-esque social group and a toxic work environment, all the while you're trying to prove to HQ why a laptopmag review of Asus products are low compared to big players like Apple, Dell, and HP (hint: your product quality and support is terrible).