薩摩亞商鳳之梧數位科技有限公司台灣分公司

RD position interview

1. Written test: Personality assessment and job-specific technical questions (half theoretical and half practical).

2. HR interview: Questions based on the résumé and personality assessment results, reason for leaving the previous company, future plans, and questions about expectations.

3. RD manager interview: Questions about the written test, asking about the concepts behind the answers, and follow-up questions based on the test questions.

The interview process was fairly relaxed. I raised some questions about the company, and all the interviewers answered them (perhaps I didn't ask any sensitive questions!?).

Result notification: The week after the interview

Interview result: Received an offer, but declined to start

It feels like there aren't many people in RD

Monthly birthday meals

1. I originally applied for and was accepted by Company A, but ended up being sent to work at this company.

2. As long as you are not in IT, product, or software engineering, you are not valued at all.

3. Labor and health insurance are reported at the minimum wage of NT$23,100.

4. It is a gambling-related company and a family business with many small companies.

5. In cross-departmental interactions, middle managers and their subordinates will tell you one thing, but when coordinating with senior management, they do not dare say it at all.

6. There is an overseas senior management group, and you may become a person shared across the entire family and its companies. The overseas senior management group does not have a good grasp of product progress.

7. It depends on the position; you may never see your supervisor and may communicate only through messaging software.

1. Overtime is paid.

2. The company is backed by substantial financial resources??

1. Serious personnel and internal conflicts; everyone capable has left.

2. Labor and health insurance are underreported. For example, if the monthly salary is NT$40,000, the labor and health insurance are reported at the minimum wage of NT$22,000.

3. There are suspicions of tax evasion involving salaries, which are divided between a New Taiwan dollar account and a U.S. dollar account.

4. Gambling company.

5. Two systems have been under development for three years and still have not gone live.

6. The company’s senior management is very good at dodging issues and using spin; employees bear the consequences when problems arise. They give one explanation internally and another externally.

7. They once laid off an entire group of developers and then continued developing the same system.

The HR staff were quite courteous.

“Regarding the Taipei office”: The office was newly established, and the entire building was rather desolate. Moreover, it will be a subsidiary in the future, but the benefits system and all other arrangements have yet to be determined, and will differ from those of the parent company. Yet they have already started interviewing and recruiting, which seems rather strange. The way the test questions were designed was very old-fashioned; it seems that startups nowadays would not test candidates this way.

- Immediate productivity is required

- Strong technical skills; the interview mainly focuses on testing OO concepts

- Modern office located in a commercial building in the Q7 district

- A gambling company. During the interview, they repeatedly emphasized that they are not a gambling company, and continually evaded questions when answering the candidate’s questions

- The company’s actual location differs from the address on its official website

- Insufficient HR professionalism; the candidate was contacted merely to inflate performance metrics