Workplace reviews and discussion: 印而凹豆整合設計製作有限公司

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The company’s interior was chaotic, and there was a strong smell of cigarettes in the stairwell. The colleague who brought me to the meeting room said the manager was in a meeting, but less than two minutes later, the manager came in. After entering the meeting room, she immediately took out paper and a pen and drew an organizational chart to introduce the company. After speaking at length, she began asking questions.

Throughout the interview, I was repeatedly interrupted by the interviewer’s comments. (The manager said that she gave every interviewee advice and friendly guidance, that she had seen too many candidates, and even reminisced about her first job.)

The comments I received were roughly as follows:

“From the moment you walked in the door and made your way to the meeting room, I knew you lacked confidence.”

“You don’t look suited for marketing. Observing you, I feel that you seem like someone who works in finance.”

“Here’s a piece of sincere advice: you could go into finance because you really look like someone who works in finance.”

The interviewer repeated the comment about me looking like someone who works in finance at least three times. When discussing personality traits, she even directly defined marketing as a field for talkative, outgoing people, and told me to look at the other colleagues in her office, saying that people without those traits would not be here or work in marketing. She also told me how people who successfully made it through the interview would behave and what kinds of questions they would ask. When I discussed examples from my previous work (marketing-related work in the arts and culture industry), she repeatedly interrupted me by saying it was boring and talking about their cross-industry collaborations on Fox and Disney films.

Regarding body language:

The interviewer asked why I did not put my hands on the table during the interview, and whether I knew that all the interviewers involved in every interview had been scoring candidates from beginning to end. (I responded after hearing this, but did not immediately adjust my posture because I felt doing so might seem somewhat deliberate.) She then scolded me again, asking whether I had not been listening to her, whether I did not care about what she was saying, and saying that I looked like I had not prepared to take this job.

I have been working for some time, but I have never encountered such a controlling interview.