Workplace reviews and discussion: 高博士國際有限公司-DK

None at all—honored to have been included among the most wasted hours of my life.

The HR department sends you an interview invitation and an online résumé attachment the day before (including both the front and back pages; the back page has 10 questions that you must answer). The front consists of the usual basic personal information. The ten questions on the back include things like:

“What makes you want to leave your current company?”

“Among your past work experiences, which job gave you the greatest sense of achievement, and which was the most frustrating?”

“What are your strengths and weaknesses?”

“What are your plans for your future career?” …and quite a few other questions.

During the interview, they also ask you to take a short multiple-choice test on basic Excel concepts. It’s very easy; almost anyone who knows how to use Excel can answer it.

The important point is that the interview process was extremely unpleasant. After I finished and submitted the test,

The first thing HR said after walking in and sitting down was: “Do you want to lose weight?” “I don’t think you look like you weigh only XX kilograms.” “Can you climb stairs?”—all accompanied by implicitly discriminatory remarks.

At the time, I was completely dumbfounded. After all, I was there for a job interview, not at a weight-loss center, right?

She then said that their chairman was relatively “appearance-oriented,” so he paid more attention to looks and body shape,

and added that when I had just walked upstairs, the chairman’s assistant had taken one look at her. She said that the day before she invited me to interview, she had also been very hesitant because she had seen the body measurements listed on my résumé.

At that point, I was already thinking: If that’s the case, then why the hell did you invite me to interview?

My résumé clearly listed my height and weight, and also included a photo. I had entered my actual height and weight, after all. The employer would only invite me if they thought it was acceptable, and when inviting someone to an interview, they will see the person in real life anyway—so what would I have had to lie about?

You even said yourself, “I was very hesitant the day before.” You couldn’t possibly have missed it when deciding to invite me, could you?

By this point, I already wanted to leave. Unfortunately, this HR representative was the type who talked incessantly and did not let others get a word in. Eventually, I had to interrupt her directly and say, “Could you let me say one thing first?” before she stopped.

I said that since she had put it that way, I first wanted to thank her for being frank. Since the chairman had that kind of attitude,

I felt that rather than being fortunate enough to get hired and then possibly having to endure strange looks, it would be better for both of us not to waste any more time. I then stood up and prepared to leave.

The point is, after hearing me say that, this lady started saying that although the chairman had that attitude, she personally valued work ability and resilience, so if I were hired, I didn’t need to worry about these issues because she would help resolve them …and so on, refusing to let me leave.

At that moment, I was thinking again: Weren’t all the things you said earlier just self-contradictory? The turnaround was unbelievably fast, and the slap in the face was loud and clear. Ha.

Then this woman started talking incessantly again about how the company was currently in the middle of a “generational transition,” with the chairman handing the company over to the young boss, and how the senior employees (who had been there for ten or twenty years) doubted the abilities of new hires …a whole lot of nonsense. After finishing that, she began complaining to me about how terrible her previous HR assistant had been, and so on.

At this point, all I can say is that I’m truly grateful that someone invented masks. The face underneath my mask was already so sour that it couldn’t get any worse. I wanted to leave but couldn’t, and was forced to stay and listen to her “complaints.” Do I look like a therapist or a trash can?

The interview lasted about an hour. Roughly 50 minutes were spent listening to her complain about her previous HR assistant, and the remaining time was mostly spent hinting, both directly and indirectly, that when working overtime, I should “try my best” not to claim overtime pay; otherwise, it “might” affect my future salary adjustments. ^_^

She also said that she personally didn’t really claim overtime pay, since you had to let the company see your individual value first …more nonsense.

The important point is that after complaining about all that earlier, she then asked me roughly when I could start work, and even asked whether I could report earlier. It was truly absurd.

After finally getting out, I could only feel that this was probably the most wasted hour of my life. I was there for a job interview—surely I hadn’t just visited a weight-loss center and a counseling office, had I? I’m dead.

And I’d really like to ask: How exactly does my being fat affect you? Did I block your home Wi-Fi or eat your rice?

Most importantly, I feel that everything about this company is problematic. Not only are the internal power struggles like a prime-time soap opera, but the company itself also has plenty of unspoken rules, along with a considerable amount of discrimination.

Luckily, this platform lets people see complete reviews and interview experiences for free. I sincerely urge anyone planning to interview there to think twice before proceeding.

In any case, I’m never buying this company’s products again. Ha.