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Personal experience; if anything sounds familiar, it is purely a dream.
The interview invitation was sent to the applicant outside working hours at night, with an immediate request to schedule the interview for the next day. I replied that I already had other plans the next day and stated that I could accommodate any time from Monday to Friday the following week. After letting the company choose a time, there was no further response. I assumed the company was unable to change the schedule, so I let it go and did not think much of it.
Unexpectedly, a week later I received the company’s reply: “Okay.” Yes, you read that correctly—it was just one word, very Hakka-style, concise and forceful (inner monologue: “Is this about a taro or sweet potato???”). Out of courtesy as a job seeker, I gave the company a few more days to choose. This time, the company replied on the same day with a date: a certain date. Yes, just the date—no time. So I asked again what time on that day would be convenient. By the next day, we finally had both the interview date and time arranged. To protect both parties’ interests, I asked the other party to confirm that everything was correct and then send a formal interview invitation (I made this request because I had previously experienced an HR representative sending an invitation for the wrong position. In the past, whether interviewing with a small or large company, HR representatives were always happy to do so and never objected.)
Unexpectedly, the other party immediately flew into a rage and snapped at me: “What else do you need to confirm? What is there to confirm? I don’t understand!” (I saw this through the notification on my phone app.) The other party seemed to realize that this statement put them in the wrong and immediately retracted the message. I did not have time to take a screenshot; all that remained was one sentence: “Reply after you have sorted out your attitude.”
I had originally checked the reviews on Tianyancha and knew that this company was not very friendly toward job seekers. I thought perhaps those incidents had happened several years ago and that things might have improved. I had planned to go, listen, and see for myself, but I was inexplicably insulted before even attending the interview. It made me wonder whether I had made some extremely impolite or unforgivable request. Fortunately, I did not even go to the interview. This company is absolutely terrible!