There was water to drink :)

There was no meeting room booked, so I went all the way up from the second floor with HR to look for an available meeting room, getting to see the whole company along the way.

The interview lasted two hours in total. During the first hour, I was taking a written test. HR had not even booked a meeting room and took me from floor to floor looking for an available one. HR told me that the test would take one hour, but after an hour, the department manager came in and immediately criticized me: “Actually, this can be completed in half an hour. Why would it take an hour?” Why should the interviewee have to bear the emotional consequences of poor internal communication?

During the second hour, the department manager spent the entire time arguing against my ideas and past efforts, while acting as if the company were so wonderful and could help me so much. After that finally ended, HR conducted a 15-minute interview, explaining the company benefits and asking about my annual salary from my previous jobs up to the present. You can really feel how little respect you are shown throughout the interview process.

I mentioned that I wanted to attend graduate school.

The interviewer then lectured me, saying that at my age I should be getting married, and so on. They also said that I would only need to pursue a master’s degree after reaching the ceiling of this position.

If you don’t want to be humiliated for two hours in a strange space, I recommend rejecting the interview invitation from the start to avoid ending up furious. Still, you can take a look at how confident this company—with a business model that isn’t particularly impressive—is in itself~