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The company has poor soundproofing, and HR is impatient, constantly rushing you during the written test.
The company places great importance on the written test; interviewers may even skip the interview just to review your written-test paper.
The HR representative was very polite and ended by wishing me safety and all the best.
Applying for a product manager position
- Before the interview, I used 104 messages to ask about the salary range, the supervisor’s title, and how the supervisor distributes work among multiple PMs.
The HR representative said they would answer my questions during the interview.
I said I needed to understand these things first before deciding whether to attend the interview,
and hoped they would reconsider answering in advance.
The HR representative then replied, “Thank you. Wishing you safety and all the best.”
The supervisor was unwilling to provide a salary range.
Based on my experience, Taiwanese companies that do not provide a salary range
usually give you a single offer after the interview, directly at the lowest point of your expected salary range,
or, even worse, negotiate down from that lowest point.
They only respect senior-level and engineering positions;
only these two types of positions are open to negotiation.
So there is no need to attend the interview and let them learn from your experience while wasting your time.
Getting in isn’t difficult, and staying isn’t difficult either. As long as you have thick skin and follow orders, basically nothing will happen. A good place to get by.
But you won’t be able to stop yourself from leaving.
There are too many to list……
Getting into the company shouldn't be difficult. As long as you communicate smoothly and have basic skills, you should be able to get in—but the key question is whether you can stay!
The biggest problem is the inability to retain employees! The managers don't seem to reflect on or review this situation at all.
The management side is also quite interesting: they have a family member with a financial background handling management (administration, technical matters, and possibly even sales). Because this person lacks relevant background and experience, everything is approached from a dollar-first perspective. Employees are required to provide ways to measure everything, without considering the practical aspects, and meetings consist of nothing but nice-sounding words.
All rules and regulations can be changed, and they may even be changed repeatedly with little notice. Usually, the changes are not made with employees' practical circumstances in mind, resulting in a great many problems, along with a large number of cumbersome paper forms that have to be filled out.
1. A family business, managed by the older and younger sisters. Their niece and nephew hold senior management positions in the company, but their abilities are average. The sisters also often argue because they disagree…
2. Policies can change on a whim; in less than half an hour at most, an established policy can make a complete 180-degree U-turn.
3. They think everyone is Superman and believe everything is very simple—after all, they are not the ones doing it.
4. The turnover rate exceeds one-third over three months, including the general manager’s assistant and department heads.
5. Most of the managers who stay survive by flattering those above them and oppressing those below them.
Freewheeling style!! (The policies change every month.) The company won’t put too much pressure on you! (Because it will make you pressure yourself.) The boss is very nice! (The boss will never admit that he is wrong.)
In this family business, everything is decided by the boss’s relatives. Today they want you to do it this way; tomorrow, that way; the day after tomorrow, neither this way nor that way will be right. If your heart isn’t strong enough, you won’t be able to handle the job. Even if it is strong enough, you still won’t want to handle it. If you fail to meet the target, you’re doomed—they deduct it from your salary. If you meet the target, that’s only to be expected, so they raise the numbers and make sure you can never reach them, saving on bonuses.
The boss won’t require you to work overtime, but leaving work late may earn you bonus points. The boss won’t require you to work on holidays, but if he finds out you went out for fun on a holiday, it may count against you.
Everything is done with only the family’s business interests in mind. If they earn 10 dollars, they take out only 1 dollar to distribute and put the other 9 dollars in their own pockets. They only put on a show: one second the boss says, “I’m willing to listen to your opinions,” and the next, he lets those opinions go in one ear and out the other, ignoring them as usual.
Advice for friends who are currently looking for jobs:
The turnover rate is frighteningly high. Having 15 people resign within three months is routine, but the boss doesn’t care—there are always more people to find—so they are recruiting all year round.