Workplace reviews and discussion: 財團法人東元科技文教基金會

Very close to the MRT station

The surrounding amenities are good

1. The two-hour interview barely covered the job responsibilities.

2. The application form required personal information, including the personal information of all family members.

After I left it blank, the supervisor (the deputy executive secretary) said, “Do you have any sincerity about coming to the interview? Are you here to chat? What are you hiding?”

The application form did not state that, under personal data protection regulations, the information must not be provided to third parties or used for other purposes.

Demanding my entire family’s personal information was very unprofessional.

3. They said there might be an opportunity to transfer to a related company after one or two years,

but they did not explain anything.

They said it might be a business development role or an internal position,

might be in Taiwan or an overseas assignment,

and asked whether I would agree.

4. For my family members’ personal information, I only provided their occupations and educational backgrounds.

The supervisor then began criticizing my mother for having a higher level of education than my father,

yet achieving less than him.

(My mother is currently a homemaker.)

However, my mother had retired as a sales manager.

Before that, she received a year-end bonus equivalent to 20 months of salary.

She had simply returned to the family to support my father’s business,

yet was spoken about this way.

It was very unprofessional and irrelevant to the position.

5. Because I used some habitual phrases out of nervousness during the interview,

the supervisor mocked me and said I would not be able to find a job.

(I had already received three or four offers at the time of the interview.)

Whether I can find a job is not for her to decide.

6. Since they had an event that evening, one employee, A, came in to ask some questions.

After A left,

the supervisor began badmouthing A to the employees present, B and C,

saying that A was unprofessional

and could not even understand technical terms, among other things.

Criticizing their own employee in front of an interviewee—

even if they thought it would establish authority,

it certainly did not win people’s support.