Workplace reviews and discussion: 群創光電股份有限公司

When looking for the entrance (the factory guard post), definitely don’t rely on Google Maps.

I got lost both times I went there.

Lunch vouchers are provided for interviews.

Overall, it’s not a bad company.

There are sofas inside the company where you can rest.

Here are some of the less-than-ideal aspects I experienced.

I interviewed three times in total. Twice, I happened to interview at Innolux after confirming that I had received job offers from other companies, and canceled the jobs I had already accepted at the last minute. However, I was ultimately not hired by Innolux either.

I initially applied to Innolux because its cleanrooms have an exceptionally high degree of automated precision. I compared this with my past experience in highly developed English-speaking countries’ automated cleanrooms, as well as my cleanroom work experience in Taiwan and mainland China, and Innolux seemed very good by comparison. Unfortunately, during the interview, it was suggested that a “coaling” culture may still exist among the company’s senior management. According to the interviewer, among senior managers at the vice president level, there are people who have children but have divorced their wives. Given that the company involves frequent business trips, this inevitably brings to mind the outdated practices often associated with older Taiwanese companies, such as hiring escorts during business trips, keeping mistresses, or having multiple households (with children who have different mothers or being divorced).

I interviewed three times, and passed the first stage all three times. The test questions were identical each time. The English test included listening, grammar multiple-choice questions, fill-in-the-blank questions, and so on. After the first two interviews, I waited two months before receiving a call from the interviewer saying that the hiring process had been postponed because they had previously undergone surgery. Later, it seemed that the offer was canceled because the company’s HR department had also been affected internally by the pandemic.

During interviews, the interviewer would initially assume that the candidate would accept the position and state that there was a need for the candidate, then ask questions to assess whether the candidate was genuinely a good fit.

The questions I was asked included:

Q1: “Our company has technologies that TSMC also wants. You’ll have the opportunity to learn them here, and once you’ve learned them, TSMC will want you. The question is, are you willing to travel for work?”

My answer: “Isn’t Innolux already a very good company? It shouldn’t need to be used as a stepping stone, right? I’ll pass on business trips.”

Q2: “Why don’t you go to TSMC?” (This question was asked five times—by five different interviewers.)

My answer: “I tried, but I wasn’t accepted.”

People there seem to really like comparing themselves with TSMC. I wonder if there’s some interesting backstory.