Workplace reviews and discussion: 鼎大股份有限公司

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．Right from the start, I spent nearly an hour taking a translation and terminology-explanation test.

．You have to sign a two-year contract; if you terminate the contract early, you have to pay a termination fee.

．The company supervisor gave people a very bad impression with their attitude!

The company explained that, after being hired, you would go to its factory in Xiamen for one month of training. During that month, you would have to learn how to make sleeping bags. Afterward, you would return to Taiwan to work.

The interview was divided into four parts:

1) Translation and terminology-explanation test (whether there is a test may depend on the position applied for)

2) Presumably an HR interview

3) An interview with a woman (I saw people online saying she might be the vice president?)

4) An interview with the chairperson

Setting aside the translation test, the interview overall made me increasingly uncomfortable.

In particular, the second woman kept picking at me from beginning to end, sizing me up with an extremely arrogant attitude. She also asked whether I was in a relationship and whether I was considering getting married. She even told me directly that she thought I would not be able to withstand the pressure of training at the factory. I really wanted to ask her how she had concluded that I had poor stress tolerance. (My résumé clearly stated that I had previous experience working in a factory, yet she kept repeating like a broken record that the factory environment was terrible and not what I imagined, and that she thought I might not be able to stay there, and so on.)

After this woman finished questioning me, I already wanted to leave. Little did I know that she would ask me to wait, and then an even more astonishing chairperson showed up.

I would like to offer this company some advice: instead of spending time criticizing and disrespecting interviewees in this way, it would be better to at least briefly review an applicant’s résumé before notifying them of an interview. This would reduce the waste of both company staff’s time and interviewees’ time.