臺灣網路認證股份有限公司

There were three interviewers in total. Two junior managers asked common interview questions, such as about my past work experience, technical skills, understanding of their industry, understanding of the position, and personal strengths and weaknesses.

One of the junior managers also gave me some advice privately after the interview ended and was very kind and approachable.

One senior IT manager had a very arrogant attitude. Throughout the entire interview, they kept their arms crossed over their chest and leaned back in the chair as if it were a massage chair. During my self-introduction, they repeatedly made sounds like “tsk, tsk, tsk” in apparent disdain, and kept interrupting me by saying things like, “And then?” and “So what?” These interruptions were meaningless. If this was supposed to be a stress test, it did not seem that way to me; their manner of speaking was simply arrogant and condescending.

A pleasant conversation?

A netizen's tragedy—I’ll write it up for him.

https://ptt-politics.com/Soft_Job/l/POLITICS.M.1638945862.A.123

Title

[Experience] Taiwan Certification Authority (TWCA) Interview Experience (Negative Review)

Author diameter0917

Time 2021/12/08 14:44:16

Interviewed company: Taiwan Certification Authority (TWCA)

Its major shareholders are the Taiwan Stock Exchange and Taiwan Depository & Clearing Corporation.

Interview dates: 11/10 (first interview), 11/15 (second interview)

Email hiring notification: 11/23 — electronic offer received

11/22: The department director specifically emailed me to tell me to prepare to report for work on 12/1. That evening, they planned to have a department dinner to welcome me.

11/23: After receiving the formal acceptance email from HR in the afternoon, I finished the documents they needed me to return within half a day.

11/24 (morning): First thing in the morning, I confirmed with HR where the paper offer should be mailed.

11/24 (noon): Since I had received the electronic offer and they had also said they would send the paper offer, I thought everything was secure.

So I promptly rejected an offer from another company.

11/24 (around 5:30 p.m.): HR said that the company had held a board meeting that afternoon and decided to freeze hiring for the department.

They would consider referring me to another department in the future. When I checked 104 that evening, the position had already been taken down.

11/29: Since they had not replied for nearly a week, I proactively emailed HR to ask about the status of referring me to another department.

11/30: HR and the department director called me to apologize and said that the other departments currently had no openings.

(I saw that other positions were still being updated on 104... lol.)

I originally thought that receiving an electronic OFFER, along with their saying that they would send the paper OFFER, meant everything was already secure,

so I rejected an OFFER from another company.

Who would have thought I would be screwed over by a company with no integrity?

Now I have to go through another round of interviews, while the HR departments at companies I had previously rejected do not return my calls or emails.

I have email correspondence and phone communication records to prove all of the above.

With the pandemic gradually easing, I really cannot understand the reason for the hiring freeze.

I’m just speculating, but it may be that they later found someone else to fill my position.

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First interview process:

First, I took a personality assessment.

Then I interviewed with the department director and an assistant general manager.

Since the project development I had done previously was quite similar to this company's business,

most of the questions focused on what projects I had worked on, what products they involved, and which vendors I had dealt with.

Of course, they also asked why I had left the industry for more than six months and why I had left my previous, very stable company.

In the end, we had a very pleasant conversation and scheduled a second interview.

Second interview process:

Much the same questions, but this time I interviewed with the vice president.

After the questions were finished, we began discussing the offer. They proposed a salary

and explained that my previous work had been in R&D, that I had no experience with PM work, and that there might therefore be a discrepancy in the salary.

The average annual compensation was about 18 months’ worth of salary; if I was willing to work hard, I could return to the annual salary I had received at my previous company.

I felt that was acceptable, since I had never worked in project management before and had been out of the industry for six months.

Therefore, despite an annual salary reduction of approximately NT$100,000–150,000, I accepted the vice president’s verbal offer.