Workplace reviews and discussion: 台灣怡倫家居股份有限公司

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I had 4 interviews.

First interview: The Korean manager and HR were originally supposed to interview me together, but HR had something come up and couldn’t come. I waited for them for 45 minutes, and they had absolutely no sense of time.

So I only interviewed with the Korean manager. Since we were both Korean, the interview atmosphere was pretty good at the time. He said that if I were hired, I would have to learn a lot.

Second interview: HR and a manager from another department were supposed to interview me, but only HR showed up. He said the interviewer from the other department was very busy.

The interview itself was very simple and lasted only 15 minutes, but afterward HR asked me to provide a detailed salary statement from the company where I was currently employed.

Third interview: The Korean boss conducted the interview.

The boss didn’t want the interview atmosphere to be too serious, so he told me to relax.

But personally, I felt that a relaxed interview would turn into ordinary chitchat....

After asking about my motivation for applying, he formally began the interview. I felt that he hadn’t seriously read my résumé at all. Then, during the conversation,

he asked why I had worked for so many companies but didn’t stay at them. He also said that, in his opinion, Korean students who graduated from schools in Taiwan didn’t have much ability—they had merely studied in Taiwan—and said that they were terrible and so on.

After hearing that, I really didn’t understand why I was interviewing there...

He also asked whether I had a boyfriend/girlfriend~, and explained to me why none of the Korean employees at their company were dating anyone...

In the end, the boss said that a fourth interview was still needed, but he couldn’t clearly explain why a fourth interview had to be conducted.

Although I kept considering whether I should continue interviewing, I really wanted to change jobs at the time, so I still went to the fourth interview.

Fourth interview: It was conducted by the manager from the other department who had not shown up for the second interview.

Of the two managers from the other department,

one manager interviewed me for 40 minutes. The content of the interview was actually unimportant because she was not responsible for the department I had applied to.

She kept asking, “Do you know what this job is?” and then started explaining the work done by her department.

The other marketing manager was 40 minutes late and then asked me, “What do you think you will learn after joining the company?”

I told him that I would be able to learn from my experience at Yilun and gain an understanding of Taiwan’s furniture industry and so on.

But he asked the same question again: “What will you get from it....”

I really didn’t understand how someone who was 40 minutes late could ask such a vague question, and then the interview ended.

So, in conclusion, if I joined this company, would I gain money and exhaustion?

That was my interview experience. Based on the interviews, I felt that this company had an extremely poor sense of punctuality and that there was no communication among its internal staff. I also felt that several employees had a very arrogant attitude.

Because it was a Korean company, I went into the interview with high expectations, but I never expected to be met with even more disappointment.

Although this company did not hire me, looking back now, if I had been hired, I’m sure I would have been worked to the bone.