Once I did an online interview process were they had a whole video and slideshow explaining about the company history and culture and the employees were saying about how it was a position for people who “truly believed in the mission of the company”.
And then they had a quiz about it.
They truly want a cult. Fuck em.
I worked at Asus as a software developer for a while, had ti do a whole ass course on the history of the company. With unskippable videos and a questionnaire after as well. Pretty sure that took the better part of a day.
I only worked on the internal systems that really don’t have anything to do with the actual products Asus makes.
Are they bad? I have a plethora of ASUS devices and they haven’t blow up yet. My TUF laptop in particular seems to be decently built, atleast with the shit tier standards of my country
The only laptop I bought from them used to thermal throttle in a 16℃ Air Conditioned room, despite being on a raised platform. They sold that in a country where 30℃ is considered normal. And this was a “Gaming” laptop.
Classic example of putting high TDP components in a low TDP box.
Then the customer support, to which I started my mail with something similar to, “I am not looking for Warranty”, they just went ahead and kept on explaining why they can’t provide warranty.
Another example of people not caring what you are saying.[1]
But granted, I didn’t buy TUF etc.
When I was out to buy a GPU, I went with MSI instead of ASUS, because the pictures made me realise, they were not cooling the VRAM.
When I thought of buying an ASUS Wi-Fi router, I considered whether I really wanted to trust them with something like that, considering routers usually do not have active cooling. 10 years down the line, I haven’t bought a new router and realised I never really needed it. Money saved.
digression: this also seems why it makes sense to companies to consider using AI customer support. Because there standards are so low as to not require a consistent conversation ↩︎
I mean, the whole “this is your second family” or “you should be proud of were you work” thing isn’t bad if they’re similarly dedicated to their employees welfare, for example “no questions asked sick days off” or maybe even more relevant in Tech, sizing the team to the work that need to be done in a project rather than expecting constant unpaid overwork from employees (rather than just once in a while).
The problem, as emphasized by the OP, is that they expect employees to invest themselves in the company without the company investing in employees.
There apparently are some companies out there which are almost like a second family, you know, the kind of place were they hear that your grandmother died and give you a week paid leave no questions asked to “deal with your loss”, but most aren’t at all like that - they treat employees as disposable cogs whilst expecting that the employees respond back by being dedicated to the company.
Once I did an online interview process were they had a whole video and slideshow explaining about the company history and culture and the employees were saying about how it was a position for people who “truly believed in the mission of the company”.
And then they had a quiz about it.
They truly want a cult. Fuck em.
I worked at Asus as a software developer for a while, had ti do a whole ass course on the history of the company. With unskippable videos and a questionnaire after as well. Pretty sure that took the better part of a day.
I only worked on the internal systems that really don’t have anything to do with the actual products Asus makes.
ASUS does seem to care more about their name than the quality of…
of anything they output
Are they bad? I have a plethora of ASUS devices and they haven’t blow up yet. My TUF laptop in particular seems to be decently built, atleast with the shit tier standards of my country
The only laptop I bought from them used to thermal throttle in a 16℃ Air Conditioned room, despite being on a raised platform. They sold that in a country where 30℃ is considered normal. And this was a “Gaming” laptop. Classic example of putting high TDP components in a low TDP box.
Then the customer support, to which I started my mail with something similar to, “I am not looking for Warranty”, they just went ahead and kept on explaining why they can’t provide warranty. Another example of people not caring what you are saying.[1]
But granted, I didn’t buy TUF etc.
When I was out to buy a GPU, I went with MSI instead of ASUS, because the pictures made me realise, they were not cooling the VRAM.
When I thought of buying an ASUS Wi-Fi router, I considered whether I really wanted to trust them with something like that, considering routers usually do not have active cooling. 10 years down the line, I haven’t bought a new router and realised I never really needed it. Money saved.
digression: this also seems why it makes sense to companies to consider using AI customer support. Because there standards are so low as to not require a consistent conversation ↩︎
I mean, the whole “this is your second family” or “you should be proud of were you work” thing isn’t bad if they’re similarly dedicated to their employees welfare, for example “no questions asked sick days off” or maybe even more relevant in Tech, sizing the team to the work that need to be done in a project rather than expecting constant unpaid overwork from employees (rather than just once in a while).
The problem, as emphasized by the OP, is that they expect employees to invest themselves in the company without the company investing in employees.
There apparently are some companies out there which are almost like a second family, you know, the kind of place were they hear that your grandmother died and give you a week paid leave no questions asked to “deal with your loss”, but most aren’t at all like that - they treat employees as disposable cogs whilst expecting that the employees respond back by being dedicated to the company.