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The company is in a traditional industry and is family-run.
1. The interviewer calculated my name, birth details, zodiac sign, blood type, family relationships, and who I am closer to in my family right in front of me; they even said, “Girls of this zodiac sign are really difficult to deal with.”
2. They asked me to translate from Chinese into English on the spot, then criticized the translation for being poor, only to contradict themselves later by saying, “I don’t know how to translate this either” and “There’s no standard answer for this.” It was criticism for the sake of criticizing.
3. They were incoherent. My English test scores and work experience were already listed; ten seconds earlier they had said, “So your English is pretty good,” and then ten seconds later asked me, “How is your English?”
4. The recruitment website did not say that a driver’s license was required, and the job did not involve working off-site. After learning that I did not have a driver’s license, the interviewer and the “family member” beside them criticized my “values/life philosophy” and said things like, “A driver’s license can save someone’s life” and “Have you never experienced a major disaster?” I couldn’t be bothered to tell them that I could afford to take taxis.
4. When I told them that since my personality traits were not what they needed, I also had my own considerations and thought there was no need to waste each other’s time, the interviewer responded, “It’s not that we can’t hire you” and “So you’re giving up?”
Overall, the interview felt extremely disrespectful of people and their privacy, and the interviewer was incoherent and lacked focus.