The interview process was actually quite courteous.
Conclusion: My offer was suddenly canceled!!!
Process: I was ultimately successfully hired after the interview and received an offer. Both parties also confirmed the start date, so I immediately went to the designated hospital to undergo a self-paid medical examination. I also put my other job-search plans on hold and canceled other interview appointments or invitations.
However, a few days before my start date, the company suddenly called to cancel my offer. I was completely at a loss. Not only did this disrupt my original plans, but I also incurred many tangible and intangible costs. In the end, I could only start my job search from scratch. Some companies even became inaccessible when I later tried to request interviews again, because I had previously turned down their interview arrangements.
After thinking it over repeatedly recently, I decided to share this experience publicly after all. I hope everyone can be careful and cautious when looking for a job.
Unexpectedly
The HR department's attitude was very passive and perfunctory.
They never answer questions sent by email.
Can a company that doesn't value interviewees value talent?
Interviewed for an engineering position
The interview mainly focused on discussing past experience
The process was very pleasant, and the interviewer even helped resolve issues
It was truly a very pleasant experience
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Convenient transportation
When applying for an engineering position, the interviewer immediately asked me to introduce myself
When my self-introduction did not cover what he wanted to hear, the interviewer started acting arrogantly
Extremely disrespectful
The product is deployed multiple times a day, which makes it feel very unstable
The interview was for an engineering position
Macs are available
AWS, containers, and the AI team were technically very satisfying and exciting
The HR staff and engineering colleagues were friendly and easy to communicate with
Overall, it was good!
The company is located inside Nangang Exhibition Center, so visitors need to exchange their ID badges to enter and exit
The interview was for an engineering position
Having to fill out the company's internal résumé was not very appealing, aside from the additional time it required
The information requested was very old-fashioned, including family history, family members' occupations, and so on... It felt like all of my personal privacy was exposed
Filling out the résumé by the roadside at the company entrance did not feel very good either.
The waiting and transfer time between parts of the interview was a bit long, though it was understandable
Part of the salary needs to be allocated to the employee welfare fund... It felt like a disguised salary deduction
It was a bit disappointing not to be able to see the engineers' work area
In terms of the open-office layout, there were many employees and the seats were packed, with a partition-style setup
I interviewed for a PM UI/UX position at this company.
I strongly advise against it. The PM manager had no idea what they were being arrogant about.
They only care about results and revenue.
User experience and aesthetics are pushed aside.
No wonder their website looks this ugly.
They should fire all the website designers.
The HR team was very friendly, and I didn’t feel pressured.
They sent a thank-you letter with the results of the initial interview.
The company’s employees are generally young, but it was very quiet... It didn’t feel very lively.
I recently interviewed for an advertising-related position at this company. The HR representative made me feel very comfortable, and the office had mostly female employees.
I was later successfully offered the job, but decided not to take it.
The marketing manager who interviewed me seemed to have recently taken on the role. Based on the way she spoke, she seemed like a young woman who had graduated not long ago, and did not appear to have much professional experience either. I was a little puzzled by the way this company chooses its managers.
The interviewer was friendly
The subsidiary's sales position offers a base salary of 2.5K plus bonuses. There will be a second interview. The office environment looks quite cramped.
The junior colleagues are young and energetic, and the HR interviewer was friendly.
One of the four bosses, Manager Liao, only wants to attract investors who are trapped in the stock market; he does not value talent and likes to make things difficult for mid-level managers, causing the company to operate inefficiently and suffer from an ongoing bad reputation in the industry.
Applied for an e-commerce PM position
The interview was held at a small guest table by the entrance (ugh), so while waiting, I overheard an interview for the Marketing Department. The interviewers from that department had a great attitude and communicated very well. Unfortunately, they were worlds apart from my interviewer XD
I didn’t click with the interviewer, and they didn’t seem very interested in talking (although HR said they had shown my application to the hiring manager first before inviting me to interview)...
1. The Product Department’s mindset is: These group-buying websites are meant to make money. If they can effectively bring in revenue, UX and aesthetics can step aside.
2. The design process is for the PM to plan everything and then pass it directly to the F2E.
3. They release updates twice a week, and switch projects extremely quickly. “Because the market changes in the blink of an eye, the founder will modify the direction in real time,” according to the PM interviewer.
It’s not difficult to understand that their current website—and probably for some time in the future—may continue to look that way. Anyone interviewing with the intention of improving their website experience should be mentally prepared.