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The interview experiences shared on the forum are accurate. This company also provided the worst experience out of all the companies I have interviewed with so far, and even if I received an offer, I would not consider joining. During the interview, they directly ask whether you are willing to travel to mainland China for work.

Whether you score highly on the on-site test or solve the questions correctly is not very meaningful. One of the managers basically spends the interview making things difficult for you; I do not know what his standards are. His attitude is very poor, and he does not seem genuinely interested in understanding your ability level.

HR got the interview location and job position wrong

To cut to the chase:

Terrible—by far the worst of the six interviews I’ve had.

The original poster has a degree and master’s in computer science from a top-four university, with 37 LeetCode Hards and 73 Mediums.

The position I interviewed for was related to computer vision algorithms or AI.

In the email exchanges, HR

mixed up the location and the interview position.

Before the manager interview, I first had to take a 90-minute test (logic + C/C++).

Basically, I scored at least 90, if not 100, in logic.

I scored at least 80, if not 90, in C/C++.

But during the video interview, the other party directly said that there were no longer any AI-related openings—only computer vision applications.

Then I received a phone call, and after speaking on the phone,

once they learned that I had no relevant image-processing experience,

I was dismissed within five minutes.

Not to mention that, even before receiving an offer, I was expected to prepare my transcript, proof of resignation, overtime consent form, and overseas assignment consent form.

And in the basic-information form, I was asked to fill in a whole lot of details, including my family members’ occupations.

High starting salary for new R&D employees

Unlimited coffee at the company

Two-hour lunch break

You can clock out at 5:30 p.m.

Some employees travel for work regularly: they may leave on Monday and not return home until Friday, and some assignments last for several months. Business trips to mainland China typically last about a month; after returning home, they may continue traveling again after only a few weeks. Travel expenses are reimbursed, but claiming travel expenses means you cannot claim overtime pay. Domestic travel expenses are less than NT$500 per day, and you must travel south past Taichung to claim them (for example, a department in Taipei must travel farther south than Taichung).

The scheduled working hours are short, but you cannot benefit from them when traveling for work.

The company has 400–500 employees, and half have less than three years of seniority.

You cannot claim overtime pay at the company. When things are busy, you do not dare leave before 7 p.m. unless everything is finished, and you often end up working even later.

At Yoctech, business trips and overtime are the norm. Those who neither travel for work nor work unpaid overtime are a minority. No one necessarily forces you to work overtime, but there is simply a lot to do.

New employees are often left to fend for themselves. Experienced employees generally have no time to look after or train them, so newcomers need a certain degree of self-motivation to survive. Of course, having a helpful senior colleague is a different story.

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I interviewed at the Southern Taiwan Science Park. When I arrived, there wasn't even anyone at the reception desk. Only an employee who seemed to be from HR kept saying, "I didn't receive any notification that someone was scheduled for an interview today. Please sit down first; I need to confirm it." Before long, I was taken in to take a test. After finishing the test, I waited an extremely long time for the manager. All they did was ask why I had applied to this company, even though HR was the one who contacted me. I wasted more than three hours there for the interview.

There is training for new employees

Business trips involve long working hours; the shortest break between clocking out and starting work again is only 7 hours

In the south, due to internal reasons, new employees cannot learn alongside experienced staff. New employees are also sent overseas, while experienced employees ignore them

There is no overtime pay for business trips on weekdays, and business trips involve working 6 or more days per week

If you get into a good department, it’s very relaxing and there’s nothing to do, but new departments are quickly dismantled and dissolved.

Personally, I recommend not working at this company. No one provides any guidance to new employees, and the company often lays people off. Even the employees who remain are treated terribly. The boss micromanages a lot, the direction is always wrong, and employees dare not speak out despite their anger.

Freedom

Low salary, no insurance, and the benefits provided are stingy.

Customer service is disposable tableware, essentially the lowest level in the company.

There are many new people in R&D; they are quite weak and have no one to guide them, so they generally do not stay very long.

There is almost no innovative improvement in the machine designs; problems remain problems.

By all means, don't come here and waste your time.

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Disrespectful toward interviewees and stood me up for the interview

About 10 years ago, I received an interview invitation through 104. HR said the interviewer had scheduled a morning interview in the north for a position in Nanke. Naturally, the company required candidates not to be late, which was perfectly reasonable. Since the job was in the south, I took leave the day before and stayed at a hotel near the company in the north. I had to arrive at the company on time at 8:30 a.m. to avoid being late for the interview.

When I arrived, HR said the interviewer had gone out and was unavailable, and asked me to fill out a test first, saying the interviewer would be back shortly. I finished the test before 10 a.m., but by noon, no one had asked whether I wanted water or lunch. They simply left me waiting in a small room all day. At noon, I couldn't take it anymore, so I went out to ask HR. They then told me to walk downstairs and find somewhere outside to eat on my own, and come back to wait for the interviewer after finishing my meal.

I continued waiting until 3 p.m., then went to ask about it. They said the manager was still busy and asked whether I wanted to have the interview the next day instead. I was furious and asked whether none of the other senior engineers were available. HR said they would look for a substitute interviewer. After waiting for about another hour, an interviewer finally appeared. His expertise was PLC electrical controls, while I was interviewing for a vision engineer position. He asked me some electrical-control questions, then said he didn't know anything about vision-related topics. The interview ended within 10 minutes, and I was told to go home and wait for notification.

Of course, I wasn't hired. Fortunately, I wasn't. After changing jobs twice, I eventually managed to earn a monthly salary of NT$120,000 at another company in southern Taiwan. This was truly the worst interview experience ever.

The company environment is good.

Everything written in the reviews is true! Coming for an interview was just a waste of my time. The interviewer spoke harshly. After finishing the interview with the first interviewer, I was asked to wait a moment. I waited for an hour, but no one came back. At the beginning, HR had given me their extension number, so I called it to ask about the situation, only to discover that the interviewer had forgotten about me. Forgetting me was one thing, but an employee inside asked the supervisor who had interviewed me at the beginning, and the supervisor replied that the employee could just ask me to leave. At first, they had told me to wait a moment—what an outrageous company. They have absolutely no respect for interviewees!

Honestly, this company’s benefits are actually pretty good.

The NT$20,000 annual travel allowance lets you take your family on trips. There are regular annual salary increases, and the year-end bonus has also increased.

You have to be in the right department for things to be pretty easygoing... Some departments are insanely busy, while others are so relaxed that they often have nothing to do, yet still receive the same benefits.

The salary is quite good, with an annual bonus of around three to four months’ salary, a NT$20,000 travel allowance each year, and an additional seven days of company leave.

There are honestly too many drawbacks

1. Most managers are still using software technologies from ten years ago. The company has no software architecture or design principles whatsoever, leaving engineers to do whatever they want.

2. The products are highly customized, and software is almost always written separately for each machine. This results in too many software versions, making them difficult to maintain and expand.

3. The sales team accepts orders recklessly. Promised delivery dates are usually delayed, causing the software to remain unfinished. Even after the hardware is shipped to the customer, it keeps being modified, resulting in engineers constantly working overtime and traveling for business.

4. Almost all engineers with three to seven or eight years of experience have left, and the company now consists mostly of newcomers.

There was nothing.

Shortly after the interview began, I could tell that the interviewer was extremely uninterested. After briefly introducing the company for one minute, they immediately started asking whether I had any questions. This was the first time I had encountered an interviewer who did not want to ask about any professional topics. It negatively affected my mindset as well, so I ended the interview hastily.

My project was highly related to AOI, but the interviewer did not ask about the project at all. I have no idea what the interviewer’s criteria for hiring are. Thinking about it afterward, perhaps my C++ programming skills were insufficient—on LeetCode weekly contests, I only have about a 50% chance of completing all four problems. Maybe I was not even worth looking at.

Overtime pay

This was about three years ago. It was the first job I found in Shulin, and I believe the position was some kind of assembly engineer. During the interview, I took a simple test and received notification almost immediately afterward. There was hardly any training for newcomers. I was assigned to a senior employee who had been there for half a year, but I ended up doing miscellaneous errands and never even got to work with anything related to the job’s professional duties. To get straight to the point, I later found out through casual conversation that there were many problems. Although overtime was paid, we worked until one or two in the morning every day. There was also a very senior employee who was harshly reprimanded by the team leader for not working overtime because he had gone to the doctor with a cold. It wasn’t until 10 p.m. on my third day that the team leader taught me something related to the practical aspects of the job, but it was the kind of thing you could only understand after learning the basics. I remember that day I was also handed over to another senior employee, and by the time I returned to my rented place in Shulin, it was already 1 a.m. It’s a little embarrassing to say, but I submitted my resignation the next day. I quit! I heard that several people before me had also resigned after working there for only a short time. Once I realized something was wrong, I decided not to waste any more time there. This really was an extremely exploitative factory, and the supervisors there were not very friendly either. That’s basically how it was.

Can't think of any.

A company that lays off employees very frequently. If you're looking for a stable job, you can skip this one. Domestic and overseas business trip expenses are relatively low compared with those of other companies. A trip to mainland China lasts nearly two months, and shortly after returning to Taiwan, you are sent there again. The equipment quality is poor. To secure orders, the sales team may hastily ship equipment and then deal with the ensuing crisis at the customer's site, resulting in situations where you have to work until midnight or on 24-hour shifts. After operating the equipment for six months to a year and gradually resolving the problems, you switch to another piece of equipment and the same cycle starts all over again. There are also no bonuses.

The junior engineering staff are leaving quickly, so it’s easy to get along with people.

Customer service does not guarantee 14 months of salary. There is no overtime pay for overseas business trips, and work often continues until almost midnight. During overseas business trips, working 20 consecutive days without rest is the norm. The travel allowance is 400 domestically and 900 overseas. The sales team helps the company exploit junior employees.

The HR staff were very polite

The interview experience posted here is accurate.

The original poster has a master's degree in computer science from one of Taiwan's top four universities and has solved 200 LeetCode problems.

The position interviewed for was in visual algorithms.

In the email exchanges, HR got the location wrong.

Before the interview, I first took a 90-minute test (logic + C/C++), which I did fairly well on.

But then I waited nearly an hour for the manager. Doesn't the interviewer's time count as time?

They also said, “I think your coding still needs improvement.”

I wouldn't claim to be an expert, but I have solved 200 LeetCode problems, and I also did very well academically in school.

Before even being hired, I was asked to prepare a transcript, proof of resignation, an overtime consent form, and an overseas assignment consent form.

I also had to fill in a lot of basic information, including my family members' occupations.

I'm quite curious how they manage to find people under these standards.

I wish the company luck in finding suitable candidates.

There is this thing?

Just take a look at the working hours

The supervisor will say, “Only capable people need to work overtime.” Heh.

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Waited forever for the interview

The supervisor only asked whether you care about money

Can't work overtime? Do you understand what I'm asking?

The way they spoke was completely pressuring and aggressive

A totally lousy company

Wasted two hours taking tests there

And it's still a listed company

I advise everyone not to waste their time coming here to get angry

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There were a bunch of assessments beforehand, but the manager who conducted the interview was simply going through the motions and trying to brush the interviewee off. In less than five minutes, they immediately asked whether I had any questions, and then ended the interview. This interview experience was truly awful.

There aren't really any advantages.

An extremely casual interview process, with a dismissive attitude.