Workplace reviews and discussion: 歐立利國際展覽設計股份有限公司

The office is quite nice, but there are no other advantages.

The price of convenient transportation is that the MRT and bus stations are packed with people during lunch and dinner times and commuting hours. No matter how convenient it is, you still can’t get a meal or board a vehicle.

First, the conclusion: many of the comments here are being generated from the same IP address. Since I couldn’t find any satisfactory reviews online, I went to the interview in person. My takeaway after the interview was: “Run.” Details below:

1. HR shows very little respect for professional expertise and randomly cuts salaries. The “salary negotiable” wording posted online is just for show.

2. Benefits: one month of year-end bonus, and NT$1,000 each for the three major holidays (???

3. The boss is well known in the industry for being emotional.

4. The business-trip allowance for “Europe and the Americas” is US$40/EUR40 per day. At other large companies, this is even lower than the going rate for business trips in the “Asia-Pacific region.”

5. The position I applied for requires regular overtime, with on-call duties on weekday evenings and holidays.

It’s a flashy-looking but ????? company. Even if you want to pad your résumé or gain experience, don’t come here. Don’t let yourself be treated as disposable.

Here is the interview process:

1. Before the interview, you must complete and return your résumé.

2. On the day of the interview, you must first complete an aptitude test and a personal information form covering your reasons for leaving previous jobs, personal strengths and weaknesses, future career plans, and so on.

3. After completing the above, the position I applied for also required two written tests: translating two pieces of exhibition-related regulations from English into Chinese, and replying to a business email in English. You only get 15 minutes to answer. (ChatGPT could solve these problems in 30 seconds. You might as well conduct the interview entirely in English to assess English ability.)

4. Afterward, HR came to discuss salary first and answered questions about benefits and compensation. Then they told me that the offer for new hires would not exceed NT$40,000, completely disregarding professional abilities and work experience and cutting it directly to below NT$40,000.

5. After HR, I interviewed with the department managers. There were two managers that day. After asking me to introduce myself, they immediately began explaining the job duties. Later, I felt that I should have listened to the job description before discussing salary with HR, because, as mentioned above, the department hiring for this position has only four people. It is a department that has to be on call at all times (weekday evenings, entire holidays, and throughout business trips), deal with the attitudes of clients and subcontractors, frequently handle miscellaneous tasks for the chairman, and directly face the chairman’s emotions. I asked the managers what was appealing about the job. They said, “It’s not boring.” The conclusion is that, as long as you can accept your professional abilities being undervalued, low pay, long hours, high pressure, and poor benefits, you can be “not bored.” Before the interview ended, the managers also asked me to seriously consider whether I really wanted to enter this industry. Finally, I recommend this company to anyone who doesn’t want to be bored. That’s all.