The place is very spacious
From an interviewee’s perspective, this company
Apart from its impressive appearance,
I can’t see the stature that has earned it a reputation as Taiwan’s pride.
I had long heard that the technology industry treats labor rights like shit.
I thought that since this was a leading major corporation,
and since it was willing to send me an interview invitation,
it would be worthwhile to observe its culture.
Although there were only four short days between the notification and the interview,
I still made a sincere effort to set aside time every day to prepare the general content of the test.
It was also quite difficult to request such urgent leave from my company,
because I live out of town.
The night before, I even booked a hotel near the Southern Taiwan Science Park,
then took a taxi there in the morning.
For an interview, this was simply the most basic level of respect.
But what did TSMC do to meet its job applicants?
In the industry I work in, whenever a company brings someone from out of town for an interview,
reimbursement for transportation is guaranteed as a basic courtesy.
It isn’t much money, but it represents a culture of mutual respect.
After finishing the test that day, I spent almost all my time in a long, drawn-out wait, with one manager after another.
It took the entire day.
HR only said to go home and wait for notification within two to four weeks.
Their attitude wasn’t particularly good either.
What made me angriest was that two days later,
I received a call from their HR department asking me to schedule another interview with a different department.
At the time, I declined because I couldn’t make time for it.
I even told them that the content of this interview could be handled through a video call or a phone call with the manager.
Why make me go there again?
HR replied that an in-person discussion would be more detailed and clear.
I wasn’t happy with that answer, so I hung up.
Are you fucking kidding me, making someone from out of town go through all that as if it were nothing?
Everyone has full-time responsibilities while preparing for your TSMC interview.
You waste an entire day of someone’s time and still have the nerve to ask them to come up again to be humiliated a second time.
Relying on the reputation of a large company, you act high and mighty because there are endless applicants.
I don’t know what the turnover rate is,
but it’s obvious that you spend a huge amount of resources on interviews.
The quality of a company’s public image depends on how its recruiters handle things.
From my perspective, HR handled this at the level of someone fresh out of school with no tact.
The process is full of problems; no wonder they’re underpaid too.
With interview efficiency this terrible,
all you do is leave people with a bad impression of the company.
My impression is that they insult people for no reason, making them pay their own way to come up just to boost their own performance numbers.
What the hell is the point of asking someone to come all the way there? What tangible benefit does it bring the company?
To help Taiwan Railways and hotels make money?
It wastes both the employer’s and the applicant’s time and money.
Providing transportation reimbursement would prevent HR from blindly casting a wide net,
and would encourage them to treat every applicant seriously.
At the very least, conduct an initial interview by phone; too often, managers only look at the résumé after someone has traveled all that way,
or realize after asking one question that the person isn’t actually who they’re looking for.
Taking a day off, plus transportation and accommodation, means losing at least NT$8,000.
I wasn’t even going to quibble with you over that.
But this kind of culture, which puts people last, will only fucking limit the company’s vision.
Aside from advances in manufacturing processes, the entire industry’s attitude toward workers is stuck 20 years in the past.
No one is willing to come forward and boycott this kind of malpractice.
Those who earn a salary are destined to be exploited.