Workplace reviews and discussion: VoiceTube_紅點子科技股份有限公司

There were three interviewers: HR, the department manager, and the CEO. They were all quite polite and friendly during the interviews. They did not ask overly tricky or difficult-to-answer questions, and they answered my questions quite thoroughly. In response to the pandemic, the company adopted remote work and also provided employees with equipment such as laptops. The benefits comply with the Labor Standards Act. The company’s employee welfare committee is made up of company employees, who also receive additional bonuses.

After receiving a message saying they were willing to interview me, the first stage was a phone interview (about 10 minutes). HR asked basic questions such as why I applied and my salary expectations, and finally said they would contact me again after passing my information on to the department manager.

The second stage was a video interview (a test of about 30 minutes, followed first by an interview with HR and then by an interview with the department manager), lasting two and a half hours in total. Some of HR’s and the department manager’s questions were repetitive (such as why I applied and what qualities I thought I possessed). When I asked HR about details of the company’s policies and benefits, they answered quite thoroughly. During the interview with the department manager, I learned that this position had been opened because the company had reorganized and streamlined its departments and was short-staffed (at that point, a warning signal appeared in my mind!).

About a week later, I received notice of an interview with the CEO. The interview felt more like casual conversation, but there were still quite a few questions, and it also lasted two and a half hours.

There were quite a lot of interview questions, and the interviews were also quite long. Since I did not know at the time of the interviews that there had been major layoffs the previous year, I was unable to ask about them. During the interview with the CEO, I felt that the company had not yet found a stable business model and was likely to keep experimenting and making adjustments. The CEO’s expectations for and positioning of this role were also somewhat unclear, and it was not very clear how this position would contribute to or matter to the company.