A large company—it sounds impressive when you say it out loud, right? If you’re just starting your career, you could go there to gain experience, then change jobs once you’ve built up some experience... You deserve better.

I recommend not going to the Songshan District location. The female manager who conducted the interview was extremely arrogant and looked down on job seekers. The only thing new about the company is the building; its internal culture and rules are extremely outdated and rigid.

1. The atmosphere surrounding the government’s active promotion of the Personal Data Protection Act apparently hasn’t reached your company—or perhaps it’s because you’re part of a large group: ordinary people are treated as insignificant, and you aren’t afraid of anything at all. During the interview, the company forcibly required applicants who had not yet joined the company to fill out a full four to five pages of job-application information, and was extremely insistent, repeatedly telling them that everything had to be filled out clearly! You couldn’t leave anything blank! (The information included salaries from previous positions, employment and departure dates, and various other personal details.) If you didn’t fill it out, the late female interview manager would glare at you and demand, “Why didn’t you write it!?” (I had already said I would only fill in the information from the job bank, but received a hostile response. Obedience training starts at the interview. Please have the company’s HR department coordinate internally instead of taking advantage of being a large group to bully job seekers.)

2. You arrive for the interview on time, but the interviewer makes you wait at least 30 minutes. You aren’t allowed to question her; only she is allowed to glare at you.

3. The office is extremely cramped, and the partitions between employees’ workstations are very low, so there is no privacy. Perhaps this is how large companies manage their workhorses.

4. Even if you are only applying for an administrative position, you must know everything under the sun; knowing only about the financial industry isn’t enough. Because there is a test.

5. Large group = countless bosses behind the scenes. For a little person like you to join the company, several people have to review your application before they finally decide whether to hire you. But the salary is not enough to compensate job seekers for the cost of going through such a tedious process.

6. If you still don’t believe me, I suggest taking a trip there and experiencing what it feels like to be treated as less than human, as well as experiencing how others look down their noses at you. You can feel the tense internal culture as soon as you walk in, and the way interviewees are treated is extremely casual, disrespectful, and unfriendly. (In a workplace that disrespects interviewees, I don’t believe the local workplace culture and atmosphere will be much better.)

7. Compared with other securities firms, the benefits and salary are no better.

8. They work in the securities industry, yet you often hear about them being hacked and harming users. With the amount of money the company makes, it shouldn’t be difficult to repair and update the system, right?

So, if the money you earn is spent neither on employee salaries and benefits nor returned to customers, where is it going?

9. Stingy. The interview instructions require you to bring your own pen; they aren’t even willing to lend you one.

The above is my personal experience, for anyone who sees it as a reference. If you’re considering joining, I strongly advise you to think very carefully—very carefully.