Pros: Good coworkers and I adapt quite well to new tech in the bank industry in Taiwan.

Cons: It is a bank, so there are many regulations that should be followed.

Pros: If you are a Senior Manager or above, you get bribes and gifts from contract staff companies. You don't even need to have any technical knowledge to go to managerial positions if you were hired before the COVID-19 outbreak. There isn't much work for managers and Senior Managers.

Cons: If you are a contractor employee, find some other company immediately. They stopped converting contract roles to permanent about 2 years back. Top bosses getting cut from contract staffing companies like TEKsystem. Managers and senior managers deliberately avoid converting contractors to permanent employees, regardless of their performance. This is because they have illicit arrangements with staffing agencies, profiting from prolonged contract positions through bribes. Meanwhile, higher management, whether knowingly or unknowingly, assumes that contractors are easier to terminate, making them less likely to challenge this practice. And if you're a permanent employee with tech skills, don't even bother applying for management. At Rakuten, management is for people who just ask for updates and know nothing about tech.

Pros: Good salary and a good place to start a career for entry-level engineers. Some new grads didn't have much experience in software development before but still got the offer.

Cons: The new grads will be assigned to the different departments after OJT, but we didn't know the result in advance. So you may join the department you don't like (no tasks to do or poor management).