1. Good benefits

2. Working hours are 10:00–10:30, with a seven-hour workday

3. Remote work; you only need to go into the office one day a week

The interview process has three rounds: HR, then the manager, followed by the CEO.

1. To put it nicely, the first round is meant to assess the candidate’s motivation. However, this part is actually highly subjective, because HR does not seek to understand your past work experience or focus on having you introduce it. Instead, they ask fairly standard questions, such as why you want to apply, whether you understand what the company does, and how you deal with setbacks.

2. Since she does not go into detail and can be said not to focus much on professional qualifications, her role is really just to assess your work motivation and personality traits. As for what the evaluation criteria are, there is basically no way to know.

3. She appeared polite, but kept drinking water throughout the interview—at least five times, roughly speaking. Although it was a video interview, this inevitably made me feel disrespected. The interview lasted only about half an hour.

4. The hiring department’s manager does not participate in the first-round interview, so professional skills do not earn you any points, and past experience is not the focus either. It is essentially a round that depends on luck: if HR likes you, you move on to the second interview; if HR does not like you, goodbye 👋

5. It was not difficult to notice that HR had a very high-handed attitude on behalf of the employer and often appeared to show little interest. Even while answering questions, I could tell from the screen that she was distracted.

There were also some inappropriate remarks during the process, such as chatting about how she was learning pour-over coffee, or questioning the fact that I had never made a purchase on their platform. At other times, she misinterpreted my questions and simply said, “You can also come into the office early in the morning~ It’s just that no one will be there to open the door for you; no one is working at that time.” So I had to repeat my question: “I can freely enter the office from Monday to Friday as well, correct?”

Conclusion:

Since she needed to report back to her supervisor, for a professional position, past experience is the most direct way to determine whether a candidate can handle the job or has potential for development. Therefore, this interview might have provided a more comprehensive assessment of the candidate’s suitability if HR had conducted it together with a manager from another department through a joint interview.

Instead of being a company where getting a job depends on luck rather than ability,

the questions HR asked during the interview felt more like “questions that need to be asked to complete the interview” rather than an attempt to understand my answers and ask more in-depth follow-up questions. Based on my interview experience, I also felt that this was an interview with little discriminatory value.

BTW. HR seemed to think that, if I was not hired, it would still take me some time to find a job. However, at the time of the interview, I already had offers from three companies. I took the interview seriously based on the time they scheduled, but unfortunately encountered this HR representative. Still, I wish every job seeker the best.