Pros
Overall clean laboratory environment. At least no matter what, they want you to leave at 5 or you have to activate/deactivate their security system
Cons
- Chinese company that is divided into the taiwanese group and cantonese group, it wouldn't take long for someone to notice that during meetings, if the director is cantonese, he will talk to cantonese people in cantonese even though some other people present do not understand it. The upper management is definitely divided and trying to gather their "own" to the company - never knew how working for a chinese company is until now, it's more like serving jail time, they expect you to be sticking your butt to the chair even if you have nothing to do, they'd rather you PRETEND you have something to do. Think about it, there's no lunch room, office area has microwave and sink, you are expected to do everything by your desk or in the lab - no privacy what's so ever, they block any social media websites, not that I encourage anybody to go on facebook while working, but even if you go on to your personal gmail, they will read and track all your e-mails, so heads up, do not use their computers for anything - no flexibility for break time, even if you are in the middle of doing something, they would urge you to take a break first, even though it makes more sense to quickly just finish what you have on hand first - small company and everyone pays DETAILED attention to what you are doing, it is as if they don't have anything other to do other than counting the time you go to the bathrooms or get out to stretch - although people finish work early in the laboratories, no one can leave early and no one is willing to go back to the office area so their managers know they finished, but rather, everyone just stays in the labs and kill time by swiping on their phones - slow training, hard to learn, you are given a repeatable task every day for months before you even acknowledge some other instruments existed - their planning of things are horrible, I spent the whole entire first week sitting their and stare at a blank monitor - limited career growth, people has been leaving quite a lot since there's no career growth and complicated management style - people look like they are stressed out, or i think they are just trying to pick out anything you do wrong