Applicants first complete a test assignment; only those who pass get the opportunity for a second interview
The role leans more toward UI interaction design.
If you want to move into UX in the future,
you may want to think it over.
Good salary and benefits
1. Meetings are often scheduled just before the end of the workday, delaying departure.
2. Flexible working hours, but some people can start work as late as 10 a.m.
3. Looks down on many new employees, thinking that having more experience makes them superior.
5. The boss is unwilling to understand the hardships faced by employees at the bottom.
6. Unless you are the boss’s favorite, you are nothing.
1. Pleasant relationships with colleagues.
2. Free drinks or snacks (worth NT$65) are provided every Thursday.
3. Employees celebrating their birthday that month receive a slice of cake.
4. There is no overtime pay, but you receive NT$120 for dinner.
5. Other benefits are only available after one to one and a half years (please check 104 yourself); it depends on whether you can tough it out.
6. If you work late into the night and have no transportation home, you can charge a taxi to the company.
1. There is no overtime pay. Although the company distributes profit-sharing bonuses every quarter, whether they are paid is entirely up to the company, and the bonus system is completely opaque and operated as a black box. Some people get bonuses while others do not—呵呵.
2. Despite being a design company, there is no air conditioning after 7:30 p.m. because it costs extra to apply for it. As a result, people often work overtime in spaces so stuffy they are nearly suffocating.
3. The boss thinks everything is very simple, so your professional expertise is extremely undervalued here. If you want to learn what frustration and disappointment are, you are welcome to join this big family.
4. Be careful when dealing with a smiling-but-dangerous vice president.
5. The company’s main business is exhibition design. When it takes on other long-term professional work, such as permanent exhibitions, commercial spaces, or public tenders unrelated to exhibitions, it still uses exhibition-oriented thinking and working methods. Its ability to handle crises arising from unexpected situations needs improvement.
6. No one in the Planning Department has planning skills, because the boss thinks writing proposals is a waste of time. Non-exhibition public tenders supposedly do not require time spent writing proposals either, so use your sales ability to negotiate bid-rigging arrangements. Unsurprisingly, the company often loses bids. If you are not one of the boss’s favorites, you may end up taking the blame.
7. The company installs design software, and all of the software is pirated. If you are a designer, after leaving the company you can only request your work in JPG format, and even that request may not be approved. Only the favorites are given relatively good hardware; everyone else gets crappy computers that are never upgraded. If you raise the issue, the feedback you may receive is that it is a problem with your individual ability.
8. When you are assigned a project that requires working until the early morning, you are still expected to arrive at work on time the next day; otherwise, you may be called in to discuss poor attendance.
9. During the interview, take everything you are told with a grain of salt. Regardless of the policies regarding turnover, bonuses, KPIs, salary adjustments, and so on, if they are not written in black and white in the contract, any of them may turn out to be empty promises. The boss’s wife is a lawyer, so you should understand.
10. The company is neither absolutely good nor absolutely bad. The above reflects my experience while working there; you will have to experience it yourself to make your own judgment.
You will probably receive a notification about a week after submitting your application.
At first, HR will ask you to fill out some basic information and a personality test questionnaire, which can be completed within 15 minutes. After that, they will call to notify you to come and pick it up. After waiting for about seven minutes, the manager will come in to interview you. They will first ask you to introduce yourself and talk about some of your past experience. Then they will ask you some questions related to your portfolio and what your work process would generally be like going forward. The whole process takes about 40 minutes.
The manager said that currently 70% of the company’s work is for overseas exhibitions and 30% is domestic, so it should be a fairly sizable company. The office is quite small and crowded, and therefore somewhat noisy.
Applied for the position of Graphic Designer/Visual Designer
After hearing the job description, it felt like the role was mainly doing odd jobs to assist the exhibition designer, such as pasting graphics and outsourcing printed materials.
They also asked questions like whether you are the type who works quickly or the type who takes more time to produce higher-quality work.