There are no advantages.

Regarding Zhongqin Industrial, I originally posted about it once on Interview Fun, but it was rejected by the reviewer as unacceptable.

I had already written that article very conservatively, and even humorously tried to make excuses for Zhongqin. I admit that the tone was somewhat sarcastic.

I accepted the rejection of my article.

All I can say is: since that is the case, fine, I will write about it truthfully. There is no need to pretend anymore.

To all job seekers and interviewees: please treasure your valuable time and energy. Think twice before interviewing with this company.

If you can avoid coming, do not come.

This is because the company said it would hire me but stood me up, causing me to develop an anxiety disorder. Thank you so much, Zhongqin Industrial.

First of all, the interview process at Zhongqin Industrial requires you to spend approximately 50 minutes answering questions.

That guarantees wasting 50 minutes of your life right from the start.

The questions are not difficult: Chinese, English, mathematics, and science.

There were even typos in the Chinese questions—two of them, in fact—and they had not been checked. It was unbelievable.

The question booklet is enclosed in a plastic document bag. Since you are not allowed to write notes or calculations in the booklet, please bring your own paper and pen for calculations during the interview.

There was no paper or pen at the site, and they would not even provide drinking water to interviewees.

The plastic bag was covered in dirt and was extremely shabby.

I brought an entire pencil case of my own supplies, finished writing easily, and then waited for the interviewer, wasting about another 10 minutes. At this point, you can conservatively estimate that at least an hour of your time may have been wasted.

After you finish, HR will ask you to sit and wait briefly for the interviewer.

Let me be frank: after waiting a little, you will face a female interviewer who constantly subjects you to intense pressure.

She will harshly criticize you, holding your résumé and reprimanding you.

She will ask how far you live from home and how many minutes it takes to drive to the company.

Whether you can drive.

She will ask you to introduce yourself, then interrupt you halfway through your self-introduction.

What is in your portfolio?

She will ask why you want to come to our company.

She will ask whether you can do back-end work, whether you can use Photoshop, whether you can create graphics, and whether you can put up webpages.

My portfolio was placed on the table, and then she asked me whether I could do......

I opened my online digital-art portfolio, showed her products I had sold and my social media accounts, but she only glanced at them before continuing to criticize my résumé for not looking impressive.

Yes.

Please remember:

It was Zhongqin's HR department that actively invited me to the interview.

I did not submit my résumé proactively.

Is it polite to ask such a question?

I still maintained a kind attitude, while she repeatedly displayed impatient expressions during the interview, frequently using her phone and answering calls. She was extremely disrespectful toward others.

She also adopted a superior tone and said, “Is there anything you would like to ask?”

During the conversation, I asked many questions about salary, benefits, job duties, and so on. Regarding salary, her answer was inconsistent with what the HR lady earlier had said: there was no overtime pay, and it was a responsibility-based position. The benefits and job details were just what was written on 104; there was nothing else special.

After reviewing my résumé, she realized that she was interviewing a job seeker with a hearing impairment and disability—that is, me.

I was already speechless.

Her attitude later became gentler and encouraging. She tried to make up for her slip of the tongue and poor interview attitude, arbitrarily analyzed my personality, and attempted to ease the awkward atmosphere. I could only force a smile. I only needed a job to make a living, but by then it was too late.

There was no need to be so aggressive just because I needed a job to make a living, was there? It made the job seeker feel inferior.

Later, she said something like, “If you have a challenging spirit, then you should come in at whatever time for work,” but by then I was no longer in the mood. I only felt that this company was truly strange.

I roughly knew that I had been hired by this female interviewer, but the process was a tormenting hell, like an interrogation.

After the interview, I went home and politely replied to HR through the 104 job-search app:

“Thank you for arranging today’s interview.

The supervisor pointed out the shortcomings in my résumé and encouraged me, saying that the opportunity to learn seriously would be provided, and that continuing to grow with the team here was very appealing to me.

If it is confirmed that I can report for work, please notify me of the necessary information.

Thank you again.”

The reply I received was: “Hello, sir. The supervisor has just confirmed that you have been hired. The document approval process will take some time, and the earliest we can send you the employment notification will be next Tuesday. Thank you.”

I was told that I had been hired. The 104 conversation record confirmed twice that I had been hired, but that I had to wait for the employment notification.

Although the interview process felt like being beaten severely, at the time I thought I should make preparations early in order to join the company, so that I would have the relevant skills and knowledge.

And then—ha—the employment notification? You can wait for it slowly.

The employment notification would never be sent.

That is what happened to me.

I was made a clown.

By this point, you will have had more than seven precious days of your time and energy wasted waiting for this letter.

I still have not received the letter. It is truly pathetic.

First confirmation of whether I had been hired

Their reply:

“Hello, sir. The supervisor has just confirmed that you have been hired. The document approval process will take some time, and the earliest we can send you the employment notification will be next Tuesday. Thank you.”

Fine, I waited until the following Tuesday and again confirmed whether I had been hired—but I still had not received the employment notification.

They replied:

“Hello, sir. The formal approval documents have not yet been issued. Since there are many interviewees, we ask you to wait. We will notify you proactively when there is news.”

Fine, does Zhongqin not have such a thing as an emailed employment notification?

They cannot even manage one email?

Waiting for signing documents?

I waited for more than a month. Thank you, Zhongqin Industrial Co., Ltd. The negative reviews of this company online are not unfounded.

This was absolutely the worst and most unforgettable interview experience I have ever had.

Additional information:

I wasted my time and money on clothing. Only after confirming my hiring with HR twice did I buy two formal outfits to prepare for starting work.

Now I can only comfort myself by looking for a better administrative position. The clothes can still be worn, so it is fine—I did not lose out. Those two formal outfits helped me see what kind of company this is.

After the interviewer criticized me and told me to study on my own, I spent three days staying up late reviewing the company’s website and teaching myself. I found a large number of errors on the company’s website, including broken hyperlink images, incorrect product specifications, and inconsistent specifications. I wrote these website deficiencies down in a notebook, intending to discuss with my future colleagues after officially starting work how the problems should be resolved.

Since I was going to join the company, I would absolutely have done my homework seriously.

Now it is unnecessary, because the company treated interviewees poorly. I may as well consider this notebook a waste of effort.

I recently clicked into the website of Zhongqin Industrial Co., Ltd. and compared it with the portions I had recorded at the time. The hyperlink image errors, inconsistent specifications, and broken photos still remain. That is when I knew there was no hope.

Finally, this incident caused me psychological and physical trauma, and I was diagnosed with an anxiety disorder.

If Zhongqin Industrial toys with a job seeker in so many ways, what must it be like for colleagues already working there?

Entering this company presumably would not lead to happiness. If they will not even give an unfamiliar job seeker a cup of water, and the interview process is extremely similar to an interrogation, employees surely will not have healthy physical or mental well-being either.