Workplace reviews and discussion: 承昱行銷有限公司

The company has snacks available to eat freely; nothing else.

I interviewed for the FB & Google Ads Assistant position.

To cut to the chase, I went through four interviews in total. The salary was minimum wage, and the working hours were from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Overtime might be required during peak seasons. The boss stated bluntly that there would be no overtime pay, and that you might even have to work until 1 a.m. If you’re still interested, you can read on about my “interesting” interview experience.

There were many stages to the interview. First came a written test. After that, someone from HR interviewed me. Following the interview, I was told there would be a second-round interview, but the timing was uncertain and depended on when the supervisor returned to the office. Then, one morning, HR suddenly called to ask whether I could come in for an interview that afternoon.

The interviewer was the vice president, and we talked for about an hour. The content was mainly about testing your personality—the company is in the advertising industry, and its clients are mostly mobile game companies that generally spend quite lavishly on advertising—to make sure you wouldn’t try to leak internal information externally. There would be a test every month, and if you didn’t pass, you would be asked to leave. After three months, if you performed well, some employees’ salaries were raised to NT$24,000–30,000.

Next, they asked me to come in for an internship the following day, giving both sides a chance: the company could see whether I was suitable, and I could observe the company as well. The internship was paid hourly. The tasks were mainly organizing data, searching for information, and so on. The supervisor assigned work to me, and basically, if I passed, there would be a second day of internship.

The first day included an interview with the supervisor, and the second day included an interview with the boss.

The interview with the boss was quite something. I was only informed at the last minute that the boss would be interviewing me shortly. Once I went in, the boss started peeling and eating a banana halfway through speaking, then sat cross-legged and told me her entrepreneurial story. She openly admitted that she was somewhat neurotic and that you had to be able to put up with her to survive at her company. I did think it was fairly candid of her to say that outright.

After the two-day internship, all that remained was to wait for notification. About two weeks later, I received an invitation to go back to the company for yet another interview as a final confirmation. That’s right—this minimum-wage job required five interviews! The company had fewer than 20 people, meaning roughly one-quarter of them had to interview you first!

P.S. They made it sound pretty good during the interview. They said they were from Kaohsiung and wanted to return to Kaohsiung to give people there a chance, so only the sales department would remain in Taipei while everything else would move back to Kaohsiung. They can say whatever they want; it’s up to everyone else whether they believes it. Looking at the salary and their attitude, I’m....

(By the way, this interview experience wasn’t recent, but it really happened. I don’t know what things are like now, so let’s wish them well.)