Workplace reviews and discussion: 台灣妙管家股份有限公司

1. HR said the lunch break is 1.5 hours.

2. According to HR and the interviewer, the company does not tend to require overtime. I heard that people usually leave work on time at 5:30 PM.

3. The company is easy to find. After crossing Taichung Hongyang Bridge, it can be found within a few minutes.

1. You have to fill out a pile of forms during the interview. Since Miaoguanjia is a mainland Chinese-funded enterprise, all the information provided during the interview is also made available to recruiters at all of its mainland Chinese-funded affiliates and retained for at least 15 years. However, the position is a Taiwan-based position. After asking about this, HR and the interviewer both said that it was impossible that the employee would be sent to work in mainland China. (Then why share the information with the mainland side?)

2. They do not respect job seekers with experience. The interviewer acknowledged that I had mid-level experience, but after calculating everything, they were only willing to offer NT$30,000. HR said this was the salary during the probationary period. After the probationary period, the salary would depend on ratings from the various contacts responsible for the business, after which the supervisor would make the final decision. Therefore, it is completely impossible to know what the final salary would be or whether it would meet one’s future expectations.

3. If your work performance does not meet expectations within three months, the probationary period will continue to be extended. You do not know when it will ever end.

4. The company’s HR department called to express that they hoped the applicant would be willing to work for their company, and then immediately asked Miaoguanjia’s HR: “Why offer an experienced job seeker NT$30,000?” HR gave two reasons:

a. The applicant’s earlier work experience did not match the work experience required for this position. (Does HR expect job seekers never to have worked in any other type of role? Why not focus on the fact that the applicant had completely relevant experience? This is an outrageous excuse for cutting the offer!)

b. HR said they had only been there for one month and would confirm it with the supervisor, but never provided any further response.

(Please respect job seekers. You want someone with experience, yet you also want to keep the salary low. Being polite is the bare minimum, isn’t it? Could you not be so outrageous?)