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The reception staff were friendly.
Although my previous employer was a contract manufacturing plant that provided one-stop production and repair services for Moxa products, when I went to AAEON for an interview today and finished filling out my personal information, the interviewing manager looked at my information and took a deep breath—the kind of reaction that made me feel he was very impatient and disdainful. He also criticized the repair of Moxa products at my former contract manufacturer as being very low-level work. I have never seen an interviewer speak that way. He also asked why I had left the company. I told the interviewing manager, “Because I don’t like rework,” but he said that he was specifically looking for someone to do rework and basic repairs. He also said that I was already over 40 and that it was too late to change careers now, so they could not offer me the salary I requested. He only said that the salary could be the same as what I had received at the company I left. At the end of the interview, the manager asked again, “Are you sure you don’t like rework?” I said yes. When I was leaving after the interview, I apologized for taking up his time, and the manager also said he was sorry for wasting my time. I don’t know which has better prospects, Moxa or AAEON; I simply felt uncomfortable with the manager who interviewed me for the repair position.