The hiring manager was very easy to get along with.

The job responsibilities were explained very clearly.

They clearly understood what kind of person they needed.

This company really needs to properly train its HR staff.

From what I’ve seen over the years, many people have said that this company’s HR department is unprofessional.

Leaving professionalism aside, their attitude really needs improvement.

They did not introduce the company or its benefits. I asked HR whether they could introduce the BU, and they replied, “Everything is on Google. The financial reports are public, so look them up yourself.”

Then they asked what else I wanted to know. I asked one question, and they answered only that one—although their explanations were practically no explanation at all.

For example: Q: What kinds of leave are available? For example, do we have to work on makeup workdays? A: Nothing special. (What kind of answer is that?)

Finally, they asked about my expectations. I stated my current annual salary and said I expected to maintain or exceed it.

The next day, they called to say I had passed the interview, but offered a salary NT$50,000 lower than my current annual salary and demanded an answer by the following day.

This was genuinely the first time I had encountered a company that offered a lower salary and still expected a response within one day.

The next day, I proactively responded to explain the salary issue.

HR even got angry at me, saying that all the managers had already approved and signed off on it.

I said there was nothing I could do—who changes jobs only to end up worse off?

In the end, HR said they would reassess it. That was also when I discovered that they had forgotten to have me complete a test or whatever else was part of the interview process.

After I spent time completing the test, the matter simply ended without any resolution.

I thought that the company probably could not offer that much anyway, and I was not particularly set on joining this company, so I decided to let it go.

Unexpectedly, another two weeks passed.

The hiring manager proactively called to ask why I was unwilling to accept the offer.

That was when I learned that HR had told the hiring manager that I had been the one to say I was not very interested in the job.

In any case, although I genuinely do not care,

there are plenty of companies that pay more than you do. To be honest, I did not even get as far as negotiating with other companies—you really made the lowest offer.

However, if a company’s HR department sabotages the candidates its managers want because of its own performance metrics, while the company simply stands by and does nothing,

you might as well open a zoo. The only employees you’ll be able to hire are monkeys.