Workplace reviews and discussion: 萬旺國際有限公司

The interviewer was quite nice. The interview was originally supposed to take place that week, but I wasn’t able to take time off, so I asked whether it could be postponed to the following week. They weren’t impatient and immediately replied that it was no problem after confirming that the schedule allowed it. However, when I asked my company for time off, it conflicted with another colleague’s vacation. I immediately called to ask whether the time could be changed again, and they even went out of their way to arrange an interview on a holiday for me.

The interview took place at one of their restaurants in Taipei. At the beginning, as with other companies, the applicant was first asked to briefly describe their experience, after which the interviewer asked several questions based on it.

Next, the interviewer explained what the applicant would be expected to do after joining the company, followed by an explanation of the company’s policies. Up to this point, there were no problems.

While describing the policies, the interviewer also interspersed several issues they had encountered. For example:

A newly hired designer won a product packaging award at the New Generation Design Exhibition. Because the designer was still a student at the time, they were able to design according to their own preferences. However, when the company asked them to design a bag using the colors red, black, and gold, they immediately responded, “That would be so ugly.”

Using this example, the interviewer began explaining that the company was hiring applicants to come to work and that applicants were expected to work according to the company’s requirements. They then gave several more examples. At the time, I thought to myself, this is a very basic matter—why explain it repeatedly?

But afterward, I also thought that perhaps the interviewer had encountered too many new employees like this, so they had no choice but to spend more time explaining it during interviews. As a result, an interview that was originally expected to end in 40 minutes was dragged out to an hour and a half.

Although there was one unpleasant part in the middle, overall, it was still a good experience.