Workplace reviews and discussion: 翔鑫堡工業股份有限公司

Traditional industry

Spent nearly three hours completing a personality test and a professional assessment that had nothing to do with the interview results. Ultimately, it mainly came down to whether the interviewing manager liked you. The résumé was practically an investigation into your personal background; if you left something out, HR would keep asking: how many family members you have, what they do for work, how old they are…

The position was for an information engineer, but the internal work was almost entirely governed by personal relationships. In other words, if you had a good relationship with the manager from the requesting department, you might not have to write the system at all; if you had a bad relationship, you would be made to write and revise it endlessly. It felt like they weren’t looking for an information engineer, but a salesperson.