The company’s employees tend to be younger (for people born in the 1980s, this means fewer generation gaps). They are willing to chat with you more, get to know your thoughts as a person, and learn some things about you (possibly to build rapport or to understand what kind of person you are).

The internal atmosphere also seems quite good. Everyone is young and energetic.

This was truly the most brutal interview experience of my life.

In the first interview, it felt like as long as you showed ambition and expressed yourself reasonably well, they would basically ask you to come back for a second interview.

The second interview was divided into morning and afternoon sessions. Other posts describe the interview content in detail, so I won’t go into it here. They had you accompany a senior employee and fill out forms (and yes, regardless of what position you were applying for, they had you do the same thing—starting from the bottom).

Before we set out, the manager said the interview would last until 3 p.m. and even asked in advance whether I had anything to do before 3. I said no problem.

So I was taken to the Rende Service Area.

At noon, the senior employee would show you their evaluation of you right in front of you (they had an evaluation sheet divided into morning and afternoon sections, with the senior employee responsible for accompanying you assigning the scores; it counted for a small portion of the interview score). They said this was meant to directly point out areas related to the job that needed improvement.

Then the afternoon work began. Yes, that’s right—I continued following them around.

At around 2 p.m., the senior employee asked whether I was still okay with the job (apparently probing me).

I said it wasn’t really okay, because of the weather. In summer, I simply don’t like sweating. (If you can’t tolerate heat, you really shouldn’t try this job.)

But I thought there was only one hour left before the interview ended, so I decided to keep following the senior employee and see how things went. After all, I thought the senior employee’s sales pitch was pretty impressive. XD

Then the senior employee said I could call a friend to come pick me up, or wait until they finished work (around 5:30 p.m.) for them to take me back.

Excuse me...? Call a friend to pick me up—at this time of day? Where was I supposed to find a friend to come get me? Weren’t we supposed to finish the interview at 3?

It was basically: Since you don’t want to do this job, there’s no need for me to waste time on you. I still have work to do, so you just wait here obediently, okay?

What!!!!!!!!!? Is this how you treat interviewees? Why did you suddenly become so casual about it????? I can understand the situation, but senior, I really don’t think this is right. This was not what we agreed on before!!! Just because I had nothing to do before 3 doesn’t mean I had nothing to do after 3!!!

They even replied: “But there’s nothing I can do—I still have work to do. I still have targets to meet, and when you stand next to me, customers won’t know whether they’re supposed to look at you or me.”

Weren’t we told there would be no sales targets? Uh, excuse me—why did you suddenly become so difficult afterward...? Why didn’t you say this in the morning when I was accompanying you?

What exactly is wrong with your company? This really isn’t a good way to solve the problem.

The passion you show toward your products is completely different from the way you handle people.

So I sat at the service area for more than three hours. After that, the senior employee, whose attitude changed as quickly as turning a page, completely ignored me. (Where did the senior employee who enthusiastically greeted me go?)

If you really want to try the second interview, remember to ride a scooter yourself. Either everything is okay and you stay, or if it isn’t okay, ride back yourself instead of wasting time waiting. With Google in hand, there’s always hope.