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When I first joined, a guy wearing glasses pretended to be busy, only telling others to do the work while choosing the easy tasks for himself. He also often went to the boss to say all sorts of things. When you encounter such a lousy company, of course you should leave as quickly as possible.
What the HR representative Lynn said at the time was very different from reality. She usually only pretended to build relationships with employees; when it came to overtime, workplace injuries, and labor insurance, none of it was handled, and she just dodged responsibility everywhere. It was like encountering a landslide every day.
The company is clean and beautiful, the environment is comfortable, and the HR representative was polite.
I interviewed for a front-end engineer position in the Product R&D Department. The male interviewer who conducted the interview was probably the department manager. The way he spoke was rather unpleasant.
He only looked at my autobiography and résumé on the spot, which was bad enough, but he also loved asking situational questions. After I answered, he kept going around in circles, often speaking sarcastically and constantly trying to dig into and否定 my answers.
Also, I’m not sure whether this interviewer has a technical background, because he asked whether my previous company used Angular for both the front end and back end.
I had one question in my mind: How could the back end use Angular?
Interviewer: What are your future plans?
Me: Because I don’t have enough practical experience with mainstream frameworks, I want to focus first on learning them and building up experience in that area.
Interviewer: Hmm~ Learning, so what are your plans?
Me: To learn mainstream frameworks and build up practical experience. That’s my short-term plan. I haven’t thought as far ahead yet; after all, one’s mindset may change at each stage.
Interviewer: You haven’t thought of it yet... (laughing) So you still haven’t told me what your plans are!
(Please... Can’t learning frameworks count as a plan...?)
Another thing I somewhat agreed with during the conversation was the point that work isn’t only about technical matters; you also have to deal with people. I do think that’s true, but dealing with people and managing people are ultimately two different things. During the interview, I also expressed that I wanted to focus on the technical side of my career and did not want to pursue a management position. Even so, he kept presenting hypothetical situations, such as asking how I would lead a completely inexperienced new graduate if I had one working under me and had a project for them to do...
Me: How much time would we be given for the project?
Interviewer: Don’t consider that for now; we’re discussing the situation first.
Me: Then, based on my past experience learning front-end development, I would share with them the books I had read and online articles I had seen, and have them practice some simple exercises first to build a sense of accomplishment.
Interviewer: What if they don’t contribute anything to the company?
Me: I would first find out whether they had made an effort and whether something had gone wrong somewhere.
Interviewer: What if the project schedule were already extremely tight?
(Speechless... Didn’t you just say not to consider the schedule?)
Me: Then I would first discuss with the team whether we could divide the project up further, leaving only a portion for the new employee to try.
Interviewer: Have you ever considered that some people simply aren’t suited to this industry? Wouldn’t you cut them?
Me: If, after getting to know the person, I felt they learned slowly but were genuinely working hard, I wouldn’t really be willing to fire them.
Interviewer: What if six months had passed and they still hadn’t contributed anything?
Me: If the other person had truly spent time making an effort, I don’t believe they could have made absolutely no contribution to the company after six months.
Interviewer: You don’t know that some people simply have no talent and don’t make an effort.
Me: If they have no talent and don’t make an effort, then of course it’s goodbye.
Interviewer: Exactly~ You still have to cut them! But you don’t seem like someone who would play the bad cop. (laughing)
Me: That’s true, which is why I said I’m not interested in taking a management position...
Interviewer: If I fail someone during the probationary period, I’d let them go directly. Why would they stay for six months?
(By this point, I was already unwilling to continue with the interview. He clearly only wanted to hear the answers he had in mind.)
Interviewer: Why did you leave your previous company?
Me: Because the company handled outsourced projects, I had to work with a wide variety of technologies, and my own projects involved older frameworks. They made up a fairly large portion of my work, but I still wanted to learn mainstream frameworks.
Interviewer: Did you discuss with your manager how to solve this problem before resigning?
Me: Yes, I brought it up. But considering the clients and company policies, I couldn’t exactly encounter a project and say, “I won’t do this” or “I won’t do that.”
Interviewer: So your manager still didn’t solve the problem!
Me: Since the company handles outsourced projects, there wasn’t much they could do.
Interviewer: Right, but the problem still wasn’t solved.
(He kept going around in circles with similar questions. Looking back, it’s a shame I didn’t ask him how he would solve it.)
Interviewer: How many jobs have you interviewed for so far?
Me: I haven’t actually counted.
Interviewer: You haven’t counted? (laughing)
Interviewer: How many offers have you received?
Me: I’d rather not answer. (I usually tell people when they ask, but this person was so unpleasant. He even laughed because I hadn’t counted the number of interviews, so I didn’t really want him to know too much.)
Interviewer: Would you be willing to have a second interview later?
Me: No!
Interviewer: May I ask why?
Me: When looking for a job, the people involved carry a lot of weight for me. You made me feel very uncomfortable, and throughout the conversation, you came across as sarcastic and aggressive.
Interviewer: Aggressive... Oh... I didn’t intend to come across that way. Maybe it was my tone. So you had a very bad impression of coming here today?
Me: It feels like I made the trip for nothing.
Interviewer: All right, then, that’s it.
I’m someone who entered the front-end field after changing careers midway, coming from outside the field with no experience. This has made finding a job very difficult. As a result, I’ve interviewed with many companies over the years, and I’ve also had companies where the interview experience was very unpleasant. I think this company’s interview experience ranks among the top three worst ones I’ve had...