Workplace reviews and discussion: 遠見天下文化出版股份有限公司

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1. When they contacted me for the initial interview, they neither provided nor informed me that I would need to take a test. Upon arriving, they asked me to fill out a personnel information form. Halfway through, two supervisors came over and said they had a meeting later, so they would interview me first. The interview ended quickly after thirty minutes (during which they painted a rosy picture of the job), and they even implied that men have an easier time getting promoted if they work hard (workplace discrimination?). They asked how much longer I would need to complete the form because there was also a personality test to take (without notifying me in advance or considering whether I had enough time). They then brought over a computer—a laptop about as slow as one running Windows 98. It crashed while I was writing the second page = =

I hurriedly contacted the reception desk, and the interviewing supervisor then said, “How about I print it out for you to fill in instead?” The entire interview process was full of unexpected incidents, which also demonstrated that the company itself had not prepared adequately in advance.

2. The second-round interview was directly with the company’s general manager, who claimed to be a legend—someone who had worked his way up from an odd-job worker to general manager. You can look him up on Google yourself. As soon as I went in, he started flaunting academic credentials, saying that his secretary, a National Taiwan University graduate, was excellent, and that the HR assistant manager sitting nearby, also an NTU graduate, was excellent. He then told me that compensation in the publishing industry is not high, and that I had neither academic qualifications nor specialized skills (I really don’t know where he got the self-confidence to decide after one interview that the other person had no expertise or ability). Simply put, this is still a very traditional publishing company, with the antiquated mindset that “everything is inferior, only studying is superior.” I sincerely advise anyone considering applying to think it through carefully.

3. By the way, I would also like to add that the interview process was full of disregard for job applicants. During the second interview, when answering questions—for example, when I answered about the KPI at my previous company—the so-called legendary general manager would turn directly to the HR staff member next to him and start discussing the pros and cons and rights and wrongs of that approach. They would discuss it for about a minute and a half, leaving you sitting there awkwardly.