Legacy reviews: 11
Head office back-office interview experience
1. Before the interview, the company sends out a résumé form for applicants to complete and return, greatly reducing the time needed for interview preparation. There are also no excessive privacy-related or unnecessary questions like those found at many other large companies. At the venue, applicants only need to complete an aptitude test that takes approximately 5–10 minutes.
2. Both the HR representative and department manager were fairly friendly and only asked about a few key points. They also did not persist with questions that were genuinely difficult or inconvenient to answer. The entire interview took only about 15–20 minutes.
I did not encounter any particularly negative points during the interview. If I had to mention something, it would be the common bad habit of many companies: saying they will notify applicants by a certain date regardless of whether they are accepted, but then ultimately providing no response.
You can secretly drink lots of beverages throughout your shift.
Compared with working at Fried Egg and Tart, the women at CoCo are really quite sensitive and subtle, and every day feels like a palace drama from *Empresses in the Palace*. Now that I’ve come to a tech company and encountered a former CoCo trainer who changed jobs and joined, I really feel like the culture of internal conflict has been brought along too. It’s scary.
Design is understaffed.
HR contacted me through 104 with an [Expression of Interest] message, saying they were interested in my résumé and hoped that, if I was interested, I would contact them as soon as possible.
However, after I replied that I was interested, they replied, [Thank you for your response. We have currently forwarded your résumé to the relevant department for review. Once it passes the review, we will immediately invite you to an interview. Thank you~], and then asked whether I had any work besides my online portfolio. After I sent the new materials to HR, I never heard from them again.
They send out invitations recklessly without internal consensus. Even in the invitation, they say they still need to wait and see whether it is OK with their company internally.
Nice people
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The tea was very good.
The place was a little difficult to find and is some distance from the MRT station.
Before the interview, they emailed me a company personnel information form to fill out and return. On the day of the interview, I was interviewed directly by the design supervisor, and I did not meet anyone from HR.
There are four people in the graphic design department in total. They mainly produce in-store promotional materials and design materials for campaign changes, coordinating with the planning team to execute projects. Overtime is uncommon. It seems that overtime can only be exchanged for compensatory leave. If someone has too much work to handle, everyone helps each other.
Bonuses and year-end bonuses are paid based on the company’s operating performance; being an internal employee does not mean you will not receive them.
The interviewer kept asking which parts of my portfolio I had designed. Maybe it was because this company has more collaborative design work, where people exchange and revise each other’s work? Since I had previously worked independently, I found the question strange—because I designed everything myself.....
It should be considered a fairly good company, but the office felt quite quiet. The supervisor kept asking questions about my portfolio, so you should think carefully about how to answer. I think they explained the job responsibilities fairly clearly, but they did not discuss the salary, and then gave me a silent rejection.
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1. There was a cup of warm green tea to drink.
2. When I entered the office, the employees were chatting quite happily with one another. The work atmosphere seemed pretty good.
1. I had already filled out the information on a computer at home the day before and had replied to confirm that I would attend the interview as scheduled. I arrived on time for the interview, but the two receptionists repeatedly asked for my name and the position I was interviewing for, as if they had no idea that someone had scheduled an interview.
2. The meeting room was small, and the receptionists asked me to sit in a spot where opening the door from outside would hit my chair. When I asked to change seats, they refused on the grounds that “the seat I requested was the supervisor’s seat.” It gave the impression that they had excellent manners and were very particular about rules.
3. The supervisor came in with a specialist to conduct the interview. As soon as the supervisor entered, they asked me to introduce myself. Then, while flipping through the information I had already filled out, the supervisor asked the specialist whether I had submitted my résumé myself or had been matched through the system. After exchanging a few words and asking one question, the supervisor told the specialist to go outside. When the specialist came back in, only the specialist remained.
The interviewing supervisor was extremely disrespectful to the interviewee. In addition, I had been proactively matched by the job bank rather than having submitted my résumé myself, and I came at the company’s invitation to interview. Is it really so difficult to review the résumé or the information form I filled out beforehand, or at least understand the situation in advance?
Overall, it was an extremely poor interview experience (probably the worst interview experience among the dozen or so companies I have interviewed with during this job search). Those considering interviewing for a position in this company’s accounting department may want to think it over.
Companies that never respond after you submit your résumé
Companies that never respond after you submit your résumé