Workplace reviews and discussion: 臺灣威瑪舒培有限公司

Very close to the MRT station

The HR person was a young woman, and very pretty

(You can tell I was really struggling to come up with pros, right?)

At the beginning, I still had to explain my entire family history.

But the fascinating interview process made me feel like all my values had been turned upside down. After that, I was basically thinking, “I’m just waiting to see what other values you can pull out of thin air.”

1. Commenting on my former companies

It started out fairly normally, although you could tell the interviewer had quite an air of superiority. They first pointed out one company: “Oh, you used to work at this PR firm? This place is really demanding.” (I replied, “It was okay—it was good experience.”) Then they said, “But this building is really dirty.”

They went on to comment on other former companies too. Either they said the food was bad and difficult to order, or they simply didn’t know the company.

(Internal monologue: What the hell?)

2. Saying my résumé was unsuitable, when they actually wanted to interview me for a different position

After a long explanation, they said that my résumé actually didn’t meet their requirements for this position. However, they still wanted me to have a discussion because they wanted to talk about another position and see whether I had any suggestions based on my several years of experience.

3. Constantly demanding details from others while being unprofessional themselves

Since I hadn’t officially been hired yet, I could only describe the projects and possible approaches in general terms. But the interviewer kept repeating, “We could just outsource this. Why would we hire someone to do it?” I explained that the purpose of having a point person was to coordinate and plan the direction the company wanted to take—for example, which products to focus on during the year and at different campaign periods—and that there needed to be someone responsible for communicating with the relevant parties.

Perhaps because they couldn’t think of anything to say in response, they went quiet for a while, then asked, “Can you install GTM?”

(Internal monologue: What does that mean? Isn’t that normally installed by the network administrator, IT staff, or maintenance vendor? Or does it depend on whether the template website you bought has a section in the backend where you can paste it?)

3. Desperately trying to dig into my reasons for leaving

Because I don’t want to leave written records that disparage my previous companies, I usually write “career planning” as the reason for leaving.

But the interviewer kept fixating on this, saying, “You’re always talking about career planning. What exactly are you planning? Why don’t you tell us what you want, so we’ll know whether we can afford to offer it to you...” They even pressured me to say what the final straw was that pushed me over the edge.

(I was completely stunned at the time...)

Later, they said, “You know you’re already in your thirties, right? What are you still trying to find out about yourself? And how do I know that after you join the company, you won’t say it’s unsuitable a few years later and leave to go find yourself again?”

(Internal monologue: Are they insecure about their own company? Do they think it’s such a terrible place that nobody can stay?)

4. A whole new perspective on people who resign—blaming the victim

The interviewer said, “People like you resign because you don’t love the company enough or care enough about the brand. Otherwise, there’s no reason at all that could justify you leaving.”

I believe this company still has professional and capable employees, because it is a fairly well-known brand. Perhaps, as the saying goes, even a large tree has dead branches.

But perhaps the other person was trying to warn me that this is a terrible company, which is why they wanted me to give up on the idea of joining.

So perhaps I should actually thank them~~

Afterward, I told some friends about what happened. One friend said, “If the salary and benefits you offered were enough for me to overlook all of that, I could love the company too.”

Maybe it’s just as Jack Ma said: employees leave for essentially two reasons—“the money isn’t enough” or “they feel wronged.”

If you paid me enough that I could willingly kneel down and lick your ass, I wouldn’t want to resign easily either.

That was my interview experience with this company, and these are purely my personal opinions.

But perhaps I’m not that great either; maybe I’m simply not suited to this company. Still, I think an interview is also a process of discussing a potential partnership, and there’s really no need for it to feel more like being insulted and belittled~