宏達電 HTC Corporation_宏達國際電子股份有限公司

1. Likes hiring attractive, highly educated women

2. Has a gym, cafeteria, and underground parking lot

1. The company culture is extremely poor, and there is intense political infighting. The company tries to present itself as having a foreign-company style, but it is neither one thing nor the other—ultimately, it is a one-person-rule company.

2. Overall, there are no products to speak of, and the company’s development strategy is unclear. It is the first time I have seen a company change its development strategy every quarter.

3. The organization undergoes changes basically every quarter. It is very common for teams to be disbanded and employees transferred to other teams, departments, or positions. The most uncomfortable part is that employees are notified of these changes directly without any prior communication.

4. Ms. Wang is religious, and the annual meeting is essentially a large-scale proselytizing event. I have no objection to religious belief, but forcing employees to sing hymns along with everyone else is truly exasperating.

5. Finally, this is only my personal experience and may not be objective: appearance discrimination is very serious. Attractive employees are not laid off or criticized regardless of their work performance, while those who are laid off are generally average-looking employees who have delivered results.

6. If you truly have no other choice and need to make a living, you can come here—but be prepared to be laid off at any time.

There are many steps in the interview process:

- Online English / logic assessment

- First online interview / technical manager + two department managers (Marketing, Web3) + HR

- Second online interview / Web3 manager + two Web3 engineers

- Third call, an informal online meeting

The process was extremely long, taking two to three weeks in total. Looking at other people's responses or related comments from front-end engineers on Interview Fun, most of the reviews were negative.

After the third interview, HR called to ask about my salary expectations. Since I had other offers in hand, we agreed that they would respond within three business days. However, the response was delayed by another two days, and I ultimately received the following reply:

“Since it is currently the year-end workforce review period, the manager responsible for this position has decided to temporarily suspend recruitment. Recruitment will resume after the workforce review is complete.”

The conversations in the earlier stages had all gone fairly well. I suspect that my salary expectations did not meet theirs in the end, but using such a poor excuse to fob off an interviewee left a very bad impression overall.

The work content looks good

【A firsthand account of how a verbal offer turned into complete silence】

I am a recent master's graduate. In April 2022, I applied for the User Experience Engineer position in VIVE R&D. There were two interviews and one online written test in total. Before the first interview, there was a written test (English at approximately the level of a high school midterm exam, as well as logical reasoning similar to an aptitude test), and I also had to fill out an application form on the official website. The first interview was with department colleagues and a supervisor; the second interview was mainly with the department supervisor and the PM supervisor. Throughout the process, an HR specialist served as the point of contact for email correspondence.

Within a week of submitting my résumé, I received an interview invitation, completed the online test that same day, and filled out the application form on the official website. The first interview took place a week later. I sent an interview thank-you email to HR that day, and the next day I received a phone call saying that, after discussing it with the supervisor, they thought a second interview could be arranged. The second interview was conducted jointly by the department supervisor and the PM supervisor, but most of the questions were asked by the PM supervisor.

During the week after the second interview, I emailed HR to ask for an update. Since I had another offer in hand, I asked about HTC's intention to hire me and the preliminary result. A few days later, HR called to tell me that the supervisor had decided to hire me. Since salary and benefits had not been discussed during the previous rounds, I discussed them with HR at that time. HR explained that the detailed salary would need to be confirmed with the department supervisor and would take the current salaries of department colleagues as a reference. The following week, HR called to confirm the salary and promised me a verbal offer, but said that because the internal salary approval process would take about a week, the formal offer letter would not be sent until the following week.

After waiting a few days and feeling uneasy, I emailed on Friday of that week to ask whether there was any chance I could receive the formal letter that day or the following Monday or Tuesday. Because of the timeline for my other offer, I had declined the previous company's offer on the day I confirmed with HTC that I had been selected. However, HTC's HR replied that because the internal process was still “confirming” whether to hire me, I had gone from being definitely selected to possibly not being selected.

A week later, I emailed again and asked HR to formally tell me whether I had been hired or whether they were actually still interviewing other candidates. HR replied in the email that the supervisor was “seeking fairness,” so they were still interviewing other people. After that, my follow-up emails about the progress received no response. Then, in early June, I searched the job listing on a recruitment website and discovered that it had been closed.

Based on this painful experience, I must earnestly remind everyone that, while I am not sure how HTC treats other candidates, the application process for this position was by far the worst and most disrespectful experience I have had.

They did not treat recruitment as a project. A project should basically have a start, an end, and defined completion goals. In principle, once a person has been found, the decision should be final, yet they continued interviewing. So if you also receive a verbal offer, remember to insist that they send you written confirmation immediately. Regardless of any internal salary approval process, make sure you obtain written proof. In my experience, many important details were confirmed only by phone, and in the end the verbal offer simply turned into being ghosted.

I hope that you, as an applicant for this position, do not have a painful experience like mine. Remember that when dealing with a large company like HTC, you should be mentally prepared for possible changes and long waiting times. However, if you have the opportunity to work there, I believe it would be a challenging and enriching work experience. Good luck.

There are quite a lot of holidays. Annual leave is better than what is stipulated by the Labor Standards Act, make-up workdays for government flexible holidays are not required, and there are also seven additional days off.

There is no overtime pay QQ

On the very first day, they asked me to work overtime without paying overtime.

On the first and second days, there were basically no tasks yet, but the supervisor kept coming over to humiliate me.

It was also very different from what was described during the interview.

There’s probably not much left to improve. Most of the capable people have already left.

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After spending two hours completing the English, logic, and technical tests that day,

HR only informed me about 20 minutes later that the hiring manager was out with the team and unable to conduct the interview.

They conducted it as a phone interview instead.

It was only when I received the manager’s call that I found out the manager had told HR to change the interview date.

But HR seemed to have forgotten?

That’s ridiculous!

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The HR team here is really awful. I interviewed for three positions, and all three HR representatives made me uncomfortable in some way.

First time: Taoyuan

HR proactively invited me by phone, but never sent an invitation before the interview.

I called to ask and found out that they had forgotten to send it.

On the day of the interview, I went to the management office beside the entrance to exchange my ID card, but the staff member told me I was not on the interview list...

I called HR to confirm, and it turned out HR had forgotten again.

She kept thanking me for reminding her (shouldn't she have apologized...?)

I first took a test. After I finished, HR called to inform me that the supervisor was in a meeting.

She asked me to come back in an hour and said I could walk around during that time.

After the call, I went to the restroom first. When I came back, the supervisor was already inside waiting for me (wasn't he in a meeting...?)

Second time: Xindian

I was invited for another interview. When I arrived, I discovered that the incompetent HR representative had given the supervisor the wrong résumé.

I received someone else's test results and educational background simply because we had the same name; they were quite different from mine.

During the interview, the supervisor had a very cold expression.

I explained that the résumé he had was not mine, but I still felt that he did not believe me.

Later, halfway through the interview, he left to attend a meeting, and I waited for nearly two hours.

Third time: Xindian

It was not until the second-round interview with the senior supervisor that I was told

there was currently no staffing need for this position.

I was then asked whether I was interested in other positions.

This was something HR could clearly have told me over the phone beforehand,

but instead they made me make the trip for nothing, as if they were helping HR meet a performance quota.

It feels like there are communication problems between the supervisor and HR.

Otherwise, HR was withholding information from interviewees

and simply wanted to bring people in for interviews.

The company’s facade is tech-oriented and has a modern feel.

HR did not clarify the interview time and details. There was a mix-up on the day of the interview, and I ended up making the trip for nothing. This was disrespectful to the interviewee and wasted nearly an entire day.

The company lobby looks quite cool and upscale, and that's about it.

Halfway through the interview, the interviewer said they needed to step out to take care of something... I was left waiting in the small meeting room for about half an hour...

They also said they hoped employees weren't the type to work strictly from nine to five... It feels like they want people to work overtime for free = =

The company is beautiful, and the location is fairly convenient

The laptop used for the interview test was unclear, even with headphones, and the operation was not user-friendly

The interviewer was aggressive and unfriendly

At the end, they even asked, "Is there anything about our interview process that needs improvement?" It was a meaningless question anyway—the English-language system is not going to be changed

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Poor interview integrity

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Haste makes waste. When phones are dropped on the ground, no one dares report them for repair because their wages will be deducted. Moreover, the company is always rushing to meet deadlines, so the phones are prone to malfunction.