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Read the community guidelinesThe HR representative who contacted me was very polite and sent a thank-you email.
For the project management interview, I only interviewed with people from the HR department. There was no in-depth interview about the job with anyone involved in project management. In addition, the HR manager and Chief Human Resources Officer kept asking about family-related matters, which made up more than 50% of the questions. Those who are going to interview may want to prepare more for questions on these topics.
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Don't waste your time getting humiliated.
The interviewer might be okay.
Then the COO came in. As soon as he entered, he crossed his arms.
First he said you have to work hard, then he used an analogy to say that working hard is useless, lol.
Seriously, don't waste your time.
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1. There is a meal-ordering system. 2. Motorcycle parking is NT$100 per month, while car parking is only NT$1,500. 3. An employee welfare committee. 4. Clubs + private cinema screenings 5. Snacks and coffee (only NT$5) available for unlimited eating and drinking
In short, I currently like many things about it
None at the moment; I like the industry very much
1. Salaries are paid on time
2. Online lunch orders can be deducted from your salary
1. The company only provided me with an old laptop with a small screen for work.... It was inconvenient and inefficient to work with, and for a technology company, I was quite disappointed. If even the most basic equipment disappoints employees, then there's no need to expect anything better afterward....
2. The actual work content differed from the job description originally advertised.... Because everyone in the department left, we had to do more work??
3. When a colleague wants to resign, the supervisor takes the attitude that it's fine if you leave—the company has money and will find someone soon.
4. The salary remained the same from the first month until I resigned.... This was already stated during the initial interview.
5. I hope your company can respect its employees. The company wants to find the best employees, and employees also want to find an excellent company...
The HR staff were not as terrible as described on the PTT board; they were very polite both in person and during the phone interview.
At the beginning, they provided a test for the interviewee to complete. Afterwards, HR conducted an interview to get a general understanding of the candidate’s background and experience at their previous job.
The interview then continued with the manager. At first, the manager explained the current situation faced by the company and department, and then began asking hypothetical situational questions related to the job. Finally, HR said that the candidate would receive the result within approximately one week, indicating whether there would be a second interview or a rejection letter.
Sure enough, the rejection letter was sent three days later. The process was very efficient, and the entire interview took approximately 2.5 hours.
Although I was not ultimately hired, the overall interview experience was good.
The only drawback, if I had to name one, is that there were two rounds of interviews, which was a little inconvenient.
I haven't gone to the interview yet, but I'd like to share one of my experiences.
After submitting my résumé to this company, I received a call from HR asking for basic information and was given the opportunity to interview. It was only then that I began to conduct more serious research into the company. I discovered on Tianyan Tong that the company had a lot of negative reviews, so I emailed the HR representative to change the interview time, saying that I wanted to observe the situation for a while. At the same time, I asked directly whether the situation described on Tianyan Tong was true, and whether the issue of making interviewees wait for a long time had been improved.
I know this behavior was a bit obnoxious, but personally, I believe that if a company isn't a good fit, we shouldn't hurt each other or waste time (at the time, I had fewer concerns while looking for a job).
In the end, HR replied that someone who cared only about the company's reputation was also a point they would take into consideration. Changing the time was no problem, and they would notify me again (as you might expect, I never received another notification).
However, when looking for a job, shouldn't you care about the company's reputation? There is also future career development, and so many other things that need to be considered. Moreover, a company with genuine systems and scale that treats job seekers well should, in theory, not have a very high proportion of negative reviews.
Although I was being obnoxious by asking this question, I also wanted the company to understand that job seekers do look at these reviews. Someone has to be brave enough to be the first to speak up before the unequal relationship between employers and employees in Taiwan can change.
I wasn't surprised or upset that I didn't get the opportunity to interview, and I don't blame HR, so I'm giving an average rating. However, I wanted to share this experience for future reference.
Tell me if there is one.
Position: R&D Test Engineer / RD QA Engineer
I can only say that what people say on PTT is all true~
1. You have to be especially careful when talking to HR. A former colleague received an interview invitation from this company's HR and also felt that they were very...
2. The interviewer in charge was extremely forceful. They would seize on verbal slips to attack you, point out job applicants' shortcomings, and criticize them mercilessly.
3. Only after berating me and when I was about to get up and leave did they remember to explain the position's responsibilities. This was highly disrespectful to the job applicant.
Conclusion: I do not recommend attending the interview; otherwise, you will only feel even more depressed afterward.
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They keep going in circles saying the company emphasizes personal qualities, but they cannot clearly explain what kind of personal qualities they mean. Once they find a minor fault, they keep attacking it. Please wake up, okay? It is no longer a society where companies choose employees; talent also chooses companies. That is why your company has been short-staffed for the past few years.
They send a thank-you letter (does that count as a pro?)
Ms. Huang from HR scheduled a Skype phone interview with me in advance, which felt very formal, so I did a little preparation. But it ended in less than five minutes. Were they still not looking at my résumé? They asked some very basic questions, and it felt like they hadn’t read my résumé at all—just randomly inviting people to interviews. No wonder they’re hiring 365 days a year. Or is HR under performance pressure? Do they have to interview a certain number of people every month, so everyone is treated as cannon fodder?
P.S. A friend of mine happened to interview there two weeks before I did and also gave it a bad review. Sure enough, there’s a reason a company gets a bad reputation.
The company looks quite beautiful.
The most exhausting interview I've ever experienced... The entire interview lasted more than 4 hours.
I spent 2/3 of the time just waiting around.
I was really tired from waiting... even though we had clearly arranged a time.
I felt that it was very disrespectful to the job candidate.
A cup of tea was provided.
The interview thank-you email was sent very quickly, which was quite efficient.
1. The position I interviewed for was a .NET engineer. There was a hands-on test divided into frontend and SQL sections. What was the purpose of testing the frontend? The SQL questions were also unclear; only after I finished did they tell me the complete questions. In reality, I hadn't finished by the end, yet they told me the manager thought it was OK. They were clearly deceiving me.
2. The HR manager who conducted the interview asked questions that were very intrusive and unrelated to the job.
3. During the interview, the technical manager did not know what you would actually be doing. They only told you about tasks you might perform and the work handled by departments to which you might be assigned.
4. The HR manager seemed very proud of the company. They enthusiastically introduced the company and emphasized that the technical manager was a foreign national, which seemed to reflect an excessive admiration for foreigners.
My overall impression was that we were just wasting each other's time. If the hands-on test was not satisfactory, they could have said so directly instead of hiding it. Overall, the interview was extremely long (the first round); including the test, you should set aside approximately three hours.
The office environment is beautiful
1. The interview process is very long, with many rounds.
2. The interview times are always scheduled during very unusual time slots.
3. You have to assess the job responsibilities yourself; the stated requirements are only for reference.
4. There is a written test before the interview, also only for reference, and some of the test content feels outdated.
The company environment "looks" good
If you go for an interview, it’s best to bring a book to read. After arranging a time for the second interview, when I arrived, HR immediately told me to wait. That “moment” turned into an entire hour. When I asked HR how much longer I had to wait, she asked disdainfully, "Are you in a hurry? The boss is in a meeting, so it won’t be that soon." I really don’t understand the point of scheduling an appointment in advance. It felt disrespectful!
I can’t think of any.
If I had to write something, it would be that salaries have never been paid late, and when the fifth falls on a holiday, salaries are paid early. (But this should be extremely basic, shouldn’t it? I’ve worked at so many companies, and not a single one has ever paid late.)
When I first joined, I was very happy, but later I became completely furious with the company...
1. At first, the company said it guaranteed a minimum annual salary equivalent to 14 months of pay... In reality, that means 14 months is the most you can get. XD No matter how well or how excellently you perform, you still get the same 14 months as everyone else!
2. Later, senior HR management quietly placed a document on a complicated path on the internal website (without emailing it to employees), stating that two months of year-end bonus would be calculated with deductions proportional to the sick leave and personal leave you had taken.
3. I heard that even people who have worked there for several years have not received raises...
3. There is no overtime pay. (You only get overtime pay if your supervisor submits an application for you, but when your supervisor assigns you more work than you can finish, you still have to work overtime to complete it. The supervisor also will not proactively report your overtime for you.)
4. Sometimes, you finally manage to leave work at 6 p.m. on time, but if you accidentally forget what time you clocked in that morning and leave a few minutes early,
HR immediately sends an email and CCs your supervisor...
5. This company no longer has many benefits. In the first two years, I heard the travel subsidy was still NT$10,000; now it is only NT$3,000...
A fake foreign company. If you are not a foreigner, your opportunities for promotion are limited. Foreigners, on the other hand, can enjoy all kinds of benefits. If you are Taiwanese, be prepared to come in as a Taiwanese laborer serving foreigners, and to be bullied or sexually harassed without anyone caring. When discussing salary, they say there will be at least one raise every year, but in reality this rarely happens—there may not even be one in several years—and the raise is so small that you might think you simply read it wrong.
This is a company lacking managerial vision and dominated by engineers. It is, supposedly, a foreign company. There have been instances of managers pursuing female employees inappropriately and sexual harassment going unreported.
Interview for the test engineer position: First round: HR manager—OK, no real problems.
Second round: The department manager kept attacking you based on your résumé and verbal slips, so you need to have very strong resistance and immunity. Although I had already heard that their reputation was bad on PTT, I thought I would still give it a try. As it turned out, PTT was right.
I was completely humiliated and dismissed.
My classmate had the final boss interview with them (the general manager): very tough, extremely tough. You’ll be thoroughly grilled, haha.
In the end, the salary was lower than that of other companies, so my classmate didn’t go.
This company requires several rounds of interviews. If you don’t get the job, it really takes a lot of time for the interviewee.
Interviewed for a test engineer position.
First, a little about my background: I have one year of software testing experience, but it was mainly manual testing. I couldn't even read logs, yet the company proactively invited me to interview.
It felt like HR had not reviewed my résumé beforehand. After I arrived, they then said that my skills were insufficient.
The job description on 104 was unclear. During the interview, discussing it with HR and the hiring manager still did not give me a detailed understanding of the actual job duties or the skills that would be required (although, on the other hand, I was also insufficiently prepared and unable to ask more in-depth and direct questions).
I felt that the manager was focused on talking about himself, as if he really needed someone to listen to him. After listening carefully to everything he said, I tried to keep up with his train of thought and then added a little of my own understanding, saying, “So the purpose of doing this is to…”
He would say whether I was right or wrong, but I think I performed quite well in this part. My understanding was on point; it just seemed that he was not really paying much attention to assessing me and simply wanted to talk.
At the end, he asked me, “Is there anything else you’d like to add?”
I said no. I admit that I was not well prepared for this interview, but I felt that when it came to selecting and hiring for a specific position, they did not have particularly clear standards or considerations regarding skills, experience, or personality traits.
I also asked HR about training. She asked me in return, “How do you know there is training?”
I said, “Normally, a company of your size would have training.”
My personal assessment is that other departments may offer training, but the job duties, training, and selection and hiring criteria for this department were unclear.
If you are a newcomer with insufficient ability and experience, you may want to think twice.
In short, the interview result: fail.
Three months later, I received another invitation to interview. Hmm…