Workplace reviews and discussion: 大大小小行創股份有限公司

1. They openly showed you all of the company’s shortcomings during the interview.

2. The company is located in Taipei City (?

3. I really can’t think of anything.

I applied for a position listed on 104 as “E-commerce Operations Specialist / Management Trainee.” The job description on the website stated: planning e-commerce website marketing, managing e-commerce platform operations, etc. However, on the day of the interview, I discovered that the actual position was completely different from the description above.

The interviewer was a female manager with an “extremely strong” personal subjective bias. Throughout the interview, she repeatedly made sarcastic and disparaging remarks about the candidate and forcefully imposed her own views on the other person. For example: “I think your salary jumped too much from your previous job. You’re simply not worth that much; you only have XX years of work experience, so how dare you ask for this kind of salary?”

In addition, the job duties discussed that day were completely inconsistent with the position I originally applied for. I applied for an e-commerce operations position, but the interviewer directly stated that this was not a comfortable or easygoing work environment. She also said that people in this position needed to possess three major qualities: 1. the ability to endure hardship, 2. the ability to endure hardship, and 3. the ability to endure hardship. Furthermore, they would be responsible for three major tasks: 1. achieving annual sales of over one million (with no bonus if the target is not met); 2. planning and participating in more than ten offline events per year; and 3. acting in a sales role and maintaining relationships with distribution channels.

None of the above corresponds to either “E-commerce Operations Specialist” or the “Job Description” on 104.

Finally, the female manager said that this person would have to do everything and be trained as a future manager, but there would be a three-month probationary period, with a salary only around the average for a fresh university graduate.

Bonus: Before the interview, the interviewer was eating instant noodles and only came in after finishing them. The interview was also conducted in an informal setting, which made for an extremely unpleasant experience. I would like to warn everyone considering interviewing at this company to be sure to take note.