High Turnover with Terrible Culture - North America HQ - Plano BenQ Employee Review

Friendly environment and nice mentoring

Low compensation but got lots work to do

- Unique travel opportunities to events if you're on the Marketing & Communications team. - Some people are genuinely friendly, understanding, and down-to-earth.

- Compensation is not as great if you're in a lower status role, but the work load is about the same as senior-level roles. - Strong min-max mentality in the work culture (especially on the Marketing team). They try and use the least amount of headcount possible to get the most possible work done. Therefore you'll often find yourself doing the job of multiple specializations, which they disguise as "great job experience for your resume." You can't say "no" to assignment, even if you feel overworked and overwhelmed because that's just the expectation, so burnout hits you quick into the job. They call everything a "priority" and they throw that word out so many times to create false pressure so you'll feel scrambled to get everything done. And to top it off, you'll have so many meetings in a week that mostly just feel like a waste of time. You'll come out the meetings with more confusion than clarity. - Very limited flexibility and almost non existent work-life balance. It's common to receive messages, emails, or tasks outside of normal office hours, on weekends, and even on your days off. Coworkers work during lunch or outside of office hours because they feel threatened that if they don't they will lose their job, visa sponsorship, or they'll fall behind in work. It's normalized to work over 40hrs a week here, even up to 50hrs, that HR will even tell you that on your First Day Orientation. No chance for hybrid or remote work unless you're favorited. Even after years of employees advocating for hybrid and multiple end-of-the-year employee satisfaction surveys that mention how much employees want hybrid, they still refuse to implement it. - Lack of trust in employees and no authority to make decisions. Expect zero control over your work, your projects, and assignments. Even if you pitch ideas or have want to take initiative on your own projects, it almost always gets shutdown quickly because it either "doesn't align with business goals," "isn't within your job responsibilities," or simply because "HQ said so." Least to say, you won't be able to do things you actually want to do, feels like there's almost no meaningful growth, and upper management is very much aware of this. I don't understand hiring smart, skilled people if you aren't going to let them utilize and hone their strengths. - Harsh communication from supervisors that honestly feels belittling and dehumanizing. You'll be openly called out in front of other teammates in meetings, and not in a positive or constructive way. And on that note, the only positive feedback here you'll really get here is the "great work team" at the end of alignment meetings that comes off as a empty repeated phrase from a soundboard, rather than genuine praise. - HQ. Arguably one of the biggest drawbacks to working at a regional office like this. At the end of the day there is no authority here, at all. Everything is entirely up to HQ Taiwan when it comes down to it. Localization is a facade here. Everyone is aware that people who work here will leave at some point, which is such a sad reality to have at a company. You'll be told to just put your head down and do what you gotta do until you can get out and find another place to work. I genuine wish it wasn't like this, but apparently this has been the situation for years. I'm using this a review as a warning for those considering BenQ. These are things I wish I would've known before coming here.