Workplace reviews and discussion: 正崴精密工業股份有限公司

The environment in the new building is quite good

The HR staff are friendly

(B) Senior Software Engineer (Tucheng)

https://www.104.com.tw/job/77uxh?jobsource=company_job

An individual interview, in a small room

Process: Test -> HR -> Manager

I. Test (1.5 hours)

1. English test: 50 questions, 30 minutes

2. Aptitude test + logic test: 60 minutes

If you finish, you can call HR to come down earlier.

II. HR interview (0.5 hours)

1. Self-introduction

2. Asked about my previous work experience based on the company’s resume format

I had written about my industry-academia collaboration experience, but not the salary, so she asked why I had not filled it in.

I replied: Because the professor paid very little, so I left it blank.

3. Academic background

Q: Why did it take you relatively long to finish graduate school?

A: My professor thought I was useful and asked me to stay and work on an industry-academia collaboration project.

Q: Why did you enroll in a different graduate program instead of continuing directly into graduate school?

A: I wanted to try a different environment and learn new ways of thinking.

Q: When did you complete your military service?

Q: What were you doing during the period when you were not working?

Q: When did you start seriously looking for a job?

Q: How many companies have you interviewed with?

Q: Why did you not join those companies?

Q: Where do you live? How long is your commute?

4. Do you have any questions?

My question: This is not a newly opened position. Why did the previous employee leave?

HR’s answer: Life planning, changing jobs for a salary increase.

III. Manager interview (1 hour)

Manager F from the Communications Systems Business Group; short white hair; speaks at an unhurried pace.

(There was a camera recording on the screen behind him.)

1. Please introduce yourself.

2. Your work experience

Q: Can you write programs? What programming languages do you use? What have you written?

Q: Have you worked on any projects?

3. The manager introduced the job responsibilities:

ODM contract manufacturing, design outsourcing, and manufacturing outsourcing; no products of their own.

Contract-manufactured products: 3C-related and IoT-related products, such as smart speakers, Bluetooth earphones, styluses, electric bicycles, batteries, and 3D printers.

Verify software specifications and write firmware.

Product processes, yield, and reliability.

Production-process automation.

Instruments: power supplies, meters, TAQ data collectors, and wireless collectors.

If there is a new verification task, you need to conduct a survey.

Development environment: not LabVIEW, but the equipment’s control interfaces and libraries.

There will be more and more projects, so you need to be proactive and motivated, and not delay things.

There is expected to be a slow season.

Overtime may be required.

My question: What is your ideal employee like?

The manager’s answer: Someone with relevant experience who is familiar with project processes and does not find requests inexplicable when asked to do something.

Someone who can confirm requirements with clients, help clients find solutions, and communicate with the factory side.

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IV. Interview impressions

1. Test

The English test included listening comprehension, so I recommend bringing your own headphones.

You could hear the ambient recording through the computer.

2. HR interview (I gave it 85 points.)

The HR person who contacted me happened to be on leave today, so another HR representative conducted the interview as a substitute. They are also responsible for another department, so they were not very familiar with the department I applied to, but they were quite nice.

3. Manager interview (I gave it 70 points.)

The manager did not seem enthusiastic, and I felt that he spoke somewhat slowly.

The manager may have been looking for someone with experience. Since he saw that I did not have relevant experience, it felt like he had no intention of continuing the conversation. = =

Toward the end, I was the one asking all the questions. I originally thought that, since I regularly read technology-related articles, I could discuss a development process I had guessed for one of the company’s contract-manufactured products. However, the manager still seemed to think I lacked experience, so he did not share much about how things are actually done in the industry.

He thought I did too little programming practice in my daily life. (Inner thought: Then how do you practice normally?)

After talking, I realized the job did not match what I wanted, so I did not plan to accept it either.

I recommend that people with experience who regularly practice programming (C#) give it a try.