Taiwanese think Americans are stupid. In leaked internal message with screen shots being sent around. - Equipment Engineer TSMC Employee Review

1.0
Aug 30, 2022
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Pros

None. None. None. None. Zero Nada Zilch

Cons

Recently there were just screenshots of a leaked message from a Taiwanese chat group on teams that got translated and screenshoted and sent around the company. The screenshot said and the translation said that basically the Taiwanese said that the Americans are incompetent. And that the Taiwanese and Indian engineers are far superior than any American. They said if you’re American and you don’t like the culture and you don’t like them speak in Chinese then you just need to get out of the company. The Taiwanese have repeatedly said that they are better they have private chat rooms talking about how they think they are smarter and better than everyone. It is completely top down racism if you are not Taiwanese you are treated like a second class citizen. It’s not worth it to come here let this company fail in America there are plenty of other semiconductor companies that pay better than they do.

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Cons

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