Workplace reviews and discussion: 上古國際藝術股份有限公司

1. The boss (director) made a lot of money and did not like having too much money, so he decided to open a gallery to promote art.

2. The questionnaire was extremely detailed, with many questions, including “What do wisdom, benevolence, and courage mean?”, “Is your father a teacher or civil servant, and what influence has your father had on you?”, and “What is the difference between a job and a career?”

3. If they can promote you to a management position, they will make an effort to cultivate you ~ Hope everyone has the goal of working toward a management position!

4. The company’s employees tend to be older; if you are under 30, you may still be told that you are too old.

5. They enthusiastically invited me to interview and sent me interview invitations twice after I applied.

6. Please bring your own résumé. They do not provide a résumé form for you to fill out, but they do have many questionnaires.

1. They have no sense of time and even scheduled two people for interviews at the same time.

I arrived on time, but the previous interviewee had not finished yet, delaying my appointment by nearly half an hour. When I later wanted to leave, they immediately offered me water and asked me to wait a little longer with another person. After the first interviewee finished, the interviewer (the director) took another half-hour break before coming out to speak with me. In the end, my interview was an hour late—apparently, a job seeker’s time is not considered time.

2. They found someone to stall

During the half hour I was waiting for the interviewer (the director), someone who appeared to have relatively little status at the company spoke with me at length. When asked why I wanted to apply, I frankly said that they had contacted me, and that I wanted to know what had attracted them to me. The other person was extremely awkward ^^

During the conversation, I mentioned that I sometimes take freelance projects privately, and was told that the director does not like people taking freelance work because it means the work will not be done well. They even want to control employees’ personal lives... It was truly eye-opening. In addition, the company is located on the first basement level, with an auto repair shop above it, so it was very noisy.

3. The interview was insincere

After the interviewer (the director) came out, he asked me to introduce myself. I explained some of my work, but he repeatedly interrupted me while I was speaking because he wanted to call the marketing manager out. I politely asked whether I should stop and wait for a moment. He said no, and then continued interrupting me repeatedly until the marketing manager arrived. During this time, the director asked when I was born. After I answered honestly, he said, “Then you’re not that young anymore.” Thank you. No matter what, I was born 40 years later than you.

4. The job responsibilities were unclear

The marketing manager asked which artists I liked. After I answered honestly, the director left his seat to find the next interviewee—how polite. The manager then asked me to sell an artwork. After the simulated sales pitch, the manager gave me sales advice. I also asked, “Does the position I applied for require sales work? The job description did not mention sales.”

The manager replied, “There is commission for selling paintings. Everyone in our department needs to participate in sales and promotion, so we want to understand your abilities.” Whether there is commission is not the point; the problem is that you never mentioned this at all.

5. They belittled my interests and goals

The manager asked what my usual interests were. I suppose there was genuinely nothing else to ask and they just wanted to stall, so they told me to elaborate more on the things I was curious about. I said that I had recently been reading some books about ghosts and monsters, and they said I was reading children’s books. Thanks for the advice. Next, they asked what I thought about the next five years and whether I wanted to become a manager. I answered no, because becoming a manager would mean I could no longer do the things I originally enjoyed.

They found this extremely difficult to understand and even tried to persuade me. Sorry, we are just in an interview, not a debate—you do not need to convince me. As a result, I was labeled as someone unwilling to work hard or make progress ^^

6. An extremely rude and brutal interview

I hope everyone who reads this will think about what should be done. I truly regret not checking the reviews before going. I had originally refused to attend, but they sent me a second interview invitation, so I thought that such persistence meant I should go and take a look. It was a complete waste of time, but at least it was very eye-opening.