Workplace reviews and discussion: 華碩電腦股份有限公司

Taking time off to interview is foolish. I always schedule interviews after work or do them remotely. ASUS agreed, so now that I already have the biggest advantage, it just depends on how I perform~

1. Ten minutes before the interview, the interviewer told me it would be delayed by an hour. I was willing to accommodate them (I had originally planned to interview in a meeting room at the office), so I packed up and prepared to head home. While I was getting ready to sign out my scooter, I received another call from the interviewer saying that their schedule was free after all. I’m very accommodating~ So I returned to the office meeting room to get ready for the interview.

2. At the start of the video interview, the other person already had a very sour expression. She took notes on her laptop while interviewing me, then compared the information in 104 and ASUS’s data systems, pointing out discrepancies in the years and asking me to explain them (I’ve worked for over 10 years—I long ago forgot exactly which years I graduated~).

3. At the time, I was fairly satisfied with the compensation and working hours at my current job. If I were going to sell my life to ASUS, there would have to be sufficient incentive. I knew they definitely couldn’t offer the figure I expected, so I was simply treating the interview as a leisurely experience. Since the other person’s tone wasn’t very friendly—in plain terms, we just didn’t click—I started sparring with her, asking questions she couldn’t answer and pointing out flaws in her statements.

4. Finally, she asked about my expected compensation. I told her that I had already entered a figure in the ASUS system and asked her to look it up herself and let me know if she couldn’t see it. After she saw the figure, she ended the interview very quickly (maybe it was even higher than hers~).

5. Later, I interviewed with a foreign brand and passed all four rounds smoothly before joining the company. At the fourth round, the foreign interviewer started by saying that he would take notes on his laptop and asked me not to mind. He likewise took notes while interviewing me, but foreigners know what respect means. I interviewed with ASUS more than once, and from being a newcomer to becoming an experienced professional, I never felt respected. ASUS later still contacted me about other interviews; when I asked questions by phone, the rookie HR representative kept giving evasive, scripted answers because she didn’t know anything. All I could do was put her in her place.

6. Looking back on my early career, I was often treated unfairly in interviews because I was a rookie. After working for many years and reaching a certain level in the workplace, I no longer allow myself to be disadvantaged in interviews. But the prerequisite is that you have to make yourself strong enough.