Militarized management company - Anonymous employee MediaTek Employee Review

Performance evaluations have a significant impact. MediaTek, being a well-known publicly listed company in Taiwan, attracts a continuous influx of fresh graduates eager to join. Unfortunately, this enables the company to exploit newcomers even more aggressively, as new employees are often forced to accept poor initial evaluations, resulting in bonuses that can be even lower than their monthly salaries. Meanwhile, unproductive senior employees may still receive higher bonuses despite contributing little, highlighting a clearly flawed bonus system. Moreover, because MediaTek aims to maintain its reputation of not laying off employees (partly due to fear of government scrutiny), it resorts to various methods to pressure employees into resigning voluntarily. Even if an employee is performing well, they might still receive unjust evaluations purely because older, less productive employees won't be let go, and due to seniority-based favoritism, these senior employees inevitably receive better evaluations. Employees who resist leaving voluntarily may also face Performance Improvement Plans (PIP) and psychological pressure as additional tactics to force them out. Furthermore, employees are subjected to numerous meaningless meetings throughout the day—including pre-meeting discussions for actual meetings—which often leaves little time for real tasks, forcing employees to work overtime to catch up. Additionally, there's a pervasive culture of shifting responsibility, as the flawed evaluation system incentivizes employees to minimize their workload and avoid mistakes, hoping instead for colleagues to slip up and receive the negative evaluations themselves.