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1. Before the interview, they provide an assignment to bring along with your basic personal information on the day of the interview (printed out and submitted in hard copy). Even a large digital company is stingy enough to save on the cost of basic paper, which feels very petty; moreover, they will not tell you whether your answers meet their requirements. They may even use it as reference material for dealing with their clients.

2. There were two written tests on the day of the interview, which completely caught me off guard because I had not been informed about them at all beforehand. The first test covered English, general knowledge of Chinese culture, geography and humanities, logic, mathematics, and workplace awareness—56 questions in total, with 40 minutes allotted. No calculator was provided; only one sheet of A4 paper was given for calculations. The questions were about things that would never be used at work. It felt like taking a college entrance exam. Did they think I had just entered the workforce? I really don’t know what the point was of testing me on these things for the position I applied for. During the interview, they even said this was an “aptitude test.” Do they think I’m a three-year-old? 🙄

The second test covered basic knowledge and content related to Google advertising. I have no complaints about this part.

3. When it came time for the interview, I originally thought that since the two written tests had already wasted more than an hour, the interview itself would be shorter. Unexpectedly, they mostly asked irrelevant questions, such as: What is the latest book you read? Have you ever been to Tokyo? How would your close friends describe you? What is the difference between a large company and a small company? And so on. If you answered the questions, they would keep probing and relentlessly pressing you, as if they would not stop until they forced you to reveal the “truth.” The interview lasted two hours. It was scheduled for 2:00 p.m., but I did not finish until nearly 5:30 p.m., wasting a full three hours of my time.

4. This job requires signing a two-year contract. If you leave before completing two years, the penalty is NT$60,000. Since the company will let everyone learn during the course of the job, a NT$60,000 penalty for breaching the contract is apparently considered just right.

The above was only the first-stage interview. The second-stage interview would be with the chairman, but HR asked me to first complete two Google Skillshop certifications and then get back to them. They would arrange the interview afterward, saying that my Google test results were not ideal.

If I’m not the person you’re looking for, just reject me directly. Why waste so much of my time? I don’t understand why they couldn’t simply stop while things were still acceptable. If the company is looking for someone with experience, then state that clearly on 104 Job Bank instead of writing “experience not required.” Otherwise, being humiliated again during the interview is genuinely infuriating.

Large companies need a grand production and expect us to overcome every possible obstacle just to reserve our most valuable time for them.

If you are thinking of applying for an interview at this company, please think twice.