Workplace reviews and discussion: 三友生技醫藥股份有限公司

It’s quite remote there, so the cost of living should be relatively low, I guess.

1. Before the interview, you’re asked to fill out a personal information form. Whether what you write is incomplete or you clearly did write something down, they’ll criticize you about it.

2. There are two interviewers: one supervisor and one senior colleague. The supervisor barely pays attention to what’s written on your résumé and asks whatever they feel like asking.

3. The gender discrimination is extremely serious. Some departments even only want to hire local people.

4. The supervisor doesn’t understand the details of the job posting, including the benefits or subsidies.

5. Not only is there no overtime pay, they also act as if it’s perfectly reasonable to say they don’t like employees leaving work on time.

6. They ask a lot of private questions about your family. Some of the information is already written on the form you filled out at the beginning, but they don’t even read it carefully. Then what was the point of making me fill out that form?

7. They ask you questions about your motivations, and won’t let up until you say something that sounds bad. Then they humiliate you by saying you don’t know how to present yourself properly.

8. Even if you have an excellent academic background, as long as you’ve had a job unrelated to the position, they’ll say your résumé looks terrible and that it counts against you.

9. The way they ask questions is like they’re querying Google: they just throw out a single keyword, so you have no idea what kind of answer they actually want to hear. Then they say your answer isn’t what they were looking for, or ask you, “Do you know what’s wrong with your question?”

How would I know? 🙃 I can’t read minds.

10. Applicants from outside the area are repeatedly asked whether they intend to stay there. Even after you reassure them several times, they keep giving you a hard time. Recent graduates are also asked whether they might leave because they plan to pursue further education, get married, or for similar reasons. At first, I still had the patience to explain that I really would stay, but after being “interrogated” in that manner more than five times, I’m sure no one would want to go there anymore.