It’s right in Neihu, and you’ll get there by following the office-zombie crowd~~

After reading everyone’s reviews, I finally understand why I felt so confused. Everyone really did help clear up my doubts (?

Next, let me update this with my interview experience and timeline XDDDDD

1. The office environment is nowhere near good, especially considering the area. After I rang the doorbell at the entrance, someone opened the door, but no one came to greet me...... I had to ask someone passing by, who then showed me to a small round table to fill out my résumé. The entrance was quite grand, with lots of products and illustrations displayed beside it, but once I passed the sofa area and went farther inside, it was completely different—dark and messy. It felt like a pile of display racks and merchandise left over from a recently dismantled exhibition, with no one having tidied up, along with lots of the empty spaces everyone mentioned.

2. There were many questions on the résumé, and I spent quite a bit of time answering them seriously... Fortunately, I didn’t have to wait as long as the 30–40 minutes everyone else mentioned. The female owner came out pretty quickly. The first question she asked was, “What can you do??” First, let me clarify that I was interviewing for a visual design position. Naturally, I said I could do graphic design...... That was basically the only sentence I got to say that day; I had absolutely no chance to speak after that...... After hearing me, the female owner pulled me over to the sofa area and told me that she cared a lot about design, and that whenever she saw someone who looked smart, she really wanted to say a few more things... Then came the rapid-fire questions, just as others in the comments had described... She asked what made my skills different from other people’s. Wasn’t it just a matter of changing the wording and adjusting the layout? If I still needed training after joining, she might not be able to offer me the salary I expected. She said she had an illustrator she had worked with for a long time who made NT$90,000–100,000 a month from her (she even showed me the receipts), and that to reach that level, I would need to start over from scratch or something........ This part probably lasted 40–60 minutes.

3. Finally, she told me I could take on the company’s projects as an outsourced contractor, and that just the volume of her projects would definitely be enough to support me...... She wanted to know what I could do and where my abilities lay, so I should submit a proposal for her to review first, and then she would reassess my salary. When I was leaving, I wanted to look at their products and stood in front of the display cabinet for less than five minutes before being chased out~~

In conclusion, I probably wasn’t as angry as the others because the owner looked at me with an almost pitying gaze from beginning to end, as if I were some kind of pitiful person (???). Also, there was no need to fill out the résumé so seriously; from what I could tell, I didn’t even need to bring a portfolio, because the owner wouldn’t look at it anyway. She would gloss over things with vague, grandiose talk about the world, and after the interview I was left with that inexplicable feeling of “Where was I just now, and who am I?” Of course, I didn’t hear any of the usual interview questions about benefits and so on. All I know is that she praised an ugly illustration to such an extent that it was frankly insulting to other illustrators. There was no need for me to say more about the fact that, besides graphic design, I can also do web, multimedia, and UI work............... : )