Workplace reviews and discussion: 耐嘉股份有限公司

It created the illusion that there was an opportunity to change careers despite having no relevant work experience. The direct supervisor who conducted the interview wasn't too bad, but…

The first interview was with the direct supervisor. Throughout the interview, I mentioned that I had no relevant experience, and the supervisor also said that the company would train me. At the end, I received notice of a second interview, but I had to submit a product research report.

The second interview was with the company's general manager (a man—the one with a mole on his eyelid). The long wait wasn't a big deal; what came next was when the waste of time began. As soon as I sat down, I saw that the general manager had just finished dressing down an employee. After receiving my interview materials and the product report I had prepared myself, he asked, “So, what do you think are the differences among three of the company's sales channels?” I admit I really didn't answer well, and I felt somewhat sorry toward the supervisor who had invited me to the second interview. But the general manager then asked detailed questions about the products from my previous job. I answered as best I could and also explained that I wasn't in sales, so I really wasn't extremely familiar with the details. However, the manager continued questioning me and said, “You worked at your previous job for two years—how can you not know anything?” Once again, I emphasized, “I'm sorry, but I wasn't in sales.” Only then did he give up asking about the products and switch to questions about my position. He asked why I had left and what my job duties were. I explained that I left because of an internal position change at the company, and that I had worked in back-office support, reception, and sales. The manager then looked confused and said, “So how many days off do you get a month? Don't you get overtime pay for holidays? How pitiful—you were just a store employee.”

He then began asking about the product costs at my previous company, saying that I should calculate how much the store earned. He asked whether I had studied accounting. I answered that I hadn't and really couldn't do it. Nothing on my résumé was fabricated, but he still kept pressuring me to use a calculator to work it out. He asked, “So when customers came to ask you product-related questions, you didn't answer them?” I replied that there were dedicated salespeople, that I was busy with my own work and didn't have time, and that the company had separate departments, so we couldn't cross over into each other's areas and our expertise was different (he interrupted me before I could finish). The general manager then said, “With the amount of money you earn, one store should only need two people. Eight people is too many. You should have been able to calculate these things after two or three months, and you should have known that it wasn't making money. No wonder the company changed its system. Being laid off was only a matter of time for you, and with earnings like that, you must have been very idle at work every day…”

I stopped listening after that, because if I had kept listening, I would have started cursing at him ^_^

A general manager who looks down on people and on those working in the service industry. Fortunately, I didn't actually join the company. I only discovered this during the interview. If they really wanted someone who could do everything from the start, they shouldn't have gone to such lengths and wasted both our time.