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You really need passion for this job—and fresh energy. When you first join, the salary is less than 26K. You’re treated like a dog or a horse; to put it nicely, they call it training.
In reality, it’s just cheap labor, because the budget has all been taken up by the artists and senior executives. Working hours can average as long as 18 hours a day. You also won’t have time to improve yourself, develop a side business, or cultivate other interests. And don’t even think of using this as a stepping stone, because production companies are even more exploitative than TV stations these days. It’s the same wherever you go.
The management hierarchy in TV production companies is very rigid. Come only if you can accept that.
Otherwise, I suggest you go work at 7-Eleven.
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There were two interviews. The first was conducted by the woman at the front desk, who was probably from HR. The process was not unpleasant; she briefly explained the job duties, the work environment, and asked some basic back-and-forth questions. The second interview, however, became uncomfortable from the start. The person conducting it was probably the department manager, and she asked the candidate to ask her questions. Since the person who conducted the first interview was not responsible for the position I had applied for, although the job duties were basically the same as those of my previous job, I wanted to first understand whether the implementation of the leave policy differed significantly from what I had been told during the first interview. The manager then started saying that asking such questions was meaningless, that she could not see any ambition for the job in me, asking why she should hire me, and that I had no right to discuss the leave policy with her... and so on. She also began sharing her own inspirational platitudes. Although they were not entirely meaningless, after receiving such a response, I no longer felt inclined to continue engaging with her and left without asking any further questions.
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The interviewer was inexplicably unreasonable. When I asked questions about the contract, they kept repeating themselves and said things like, “You haven’t even started working yet, and you already have so many questions. Do you really intend to learn?” Excuse me, don’t you carefully ask questions before signing a contract with your own name on it? How can someone like that be a manager?
After that, they went on a relentless lecture, clearly intent on humiliating me, bringing up all sorts of irrelevant remarks about how young people nowadays are “strawberries” and can’t endure hard work. The entire half-hour interview consisted of criticizing young people today for being unable to handle hardship and saying they deserve to earn 22K—exactly the kind of remarks you would expect from an exploitative old-school boss. I recommend that everyone not waste their time applying.
I must have been blinded to go back for a second interview.
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The manager showed absolutely no respect for the interviewee during the interview. Despite asking questions as a matter of courtesy, they still contradicted everything I said from beginning to end, showing no consideration whatsoever. They even said, “I don’t know why you came for a second interview.” I was completely dumbfounded at the time—isn’t it your company’s HR department that called to notify me about the second interview? I had spent a long time preparing, and although I ultimately thought, “Fine, it’s okay that they didn’t look at any of it,” I had sincerely prepared for the interview and spent over an hour traveling each way, twice, only to be criticized with biased comments right from the start by someone who clearly had preconceived notions (before I had even introduced myself). To be honest, I’m not afraid of criticism, but I absolutely cannot accept something so unreasonable. The experience felt truly awful. If they thought I was unsuitable, shouldn’t they have known that during the first interview and from my detailed résumé? Why ask me to come back for a second interview just to reprimand me in person? The entire interview lasted less than ten minutes. I even said thank you when I left, but thinking about it now, I really feel it was completely unnecessary.