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Read the community guidelinesIf the interview process lets you sit there for two hours enjoying free air conditioning, then that would be the only advantage.
The interview process is extremely long—at least two hours—and HR does not know how to stagger the interviews.
At least four candidates were scheduled for the same time slot, and each person had to have an individual interview. The first floor looked like a shipping area, piled high with items, while the second floor seemed to be where the graphic design department was located. Upon entering, the receptionist gives you one of their own application forms to fill out, and only after you complete it do they arrange an individual interview. Each interview lasts at least 15 minutes, which means you have to sit around doing nothing for a long time. It is also not handled in the order people arrive, so you may end up waiting for someone who arrived after you to finish before it is your turn.
The interviewer loves to make small talk. For example, right after I went in, they asked whether I knew Lan Ge Printing, then said things like how they were different from that company. Because my portfolio included freelance design work, they also went on to discuss various completely pointless and irrelevant things about my customized projects. It was an enormous waste of time.
The reception staff clearly treat people differently, with an obvious attitude of not wanting to deal with you. HR also does not know how to stagger the interviews; they simply schedule everyone for the same time and make you wait around. The interview order is not based on arrival time either. Although the posting on 104 did not mention bringing a résumé, they still asked upon arrival whether I had brought one. From arrival until the end of the interview took at least one hour and 50 minutes, and the interviewer kept talking about irrelevant things, leaving me feeling that my time had been wasted.
There is not much overtime. Sometimes you can get defective items with printing errors that customers did not want. It is easy to take leave, but menstrual leave has to be taken as personal leave; otherwise, they tell you to see a doctor and say that if you have menstrual pain, it means there is something wrong with your body, which is why it hurts. Some employees there are easy to get along with.
Some senior employees have poor emotional intelligence and poor emotional management, and easily fly into a rage over minor things. They refuse to back down even when they are in the wrong, and seem to think that because they have been there a long time, they are very impressive. Their perspective is very narrow, and sometimes, even when something is clearly their fault, they still argue with you. Also, the job duties discussed in the interview are completely different from the actual work, and the position is completely misrepresented. It feels like they just lure you in first and deal with the rest later. The benefits and policies also do not comply with the Labor Standards Act, and the salary is different from what was discussed in the interview. When questioned, they come up with a bunch of excuses to fob you off. During the first three days, they worry that you will quit, so they do not enroll you in labor and health insurance. Sick leave is deducted from your full salary. The booklet given to you when you start contains several pages detailing the rules for deducting annual leave and other leave, which do not comply with the Labor Standards Act. You can experience many of these things after you are hired~
You can learn a lot about the basics of printing
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Before the interview, they ask you to handwrite a résumé and take a personality test. It takes a lot of time.
The receptionist said that the boss was discussing something with a client and asked me to wait. They first took my portfolio to show it to their supervisor.
In the end, after waiting for more than 40 minutes, they said that because the boss was going out later and was worried I would have to wait too long, they would have me go home first and notify me of another time for the interview. It was a complete waste of time .......
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1. No dedicated receptionist was arranged, leaving the interviewee unsure what to do
The woman A on the left upon entering was talking to woman C, while everyone in the offices ahead was using computers. Woman A said to find someone inside, but it was unclear whom to look for.
2. They requested a paper résumé and also required another one in their own format; the résumé content invaded privacy
Woman B, who wore glasses, took me to the basement B1 (next to the photo studio), where a man was already reviewing and scoring forms. First, I had to fill in personal information. The questions were extremely detailed (school attended, previous company’s address and salary, parents’ ages and occupations, interests, whether I planned to get married or have children within a year, and a headshot section, to which I attached a photo with a paper clip). The main issue was that the fields were extremely small and very inhumane......
3. The personality test was too time-consuming
I also had to take the “Fourteen Heart Sign Personality Test” (with categories such as buffalo and peacock). Halfway through, the male colleague in the photo studio kept chatting and joking around with the female colleague wearing glasses, and they continued for quite a while⋯. The personality test should be administered as a computer questionnaire. It had 125 questions in total, and I also had to calculate the score myself. In the end, it took an hour to complete.
4. The interviewer was not the supervisor of the relevant department, and the job description was glossed over
Before I had finished filling in the personal information, woman A said she would take a look first and asked, “Why did you leave your previous job?” The interviewer was not the supervisor of the department I would belong to, and only briefly introduced the job duties and company benefits.
Labor and health insurance; days off according to the calendar’s red-marked holidays.
Working hours: 09:00–18:00
Job duties: Photographing product images, editing photos, writing descriptions, and uploading them.
6. I still had to have a second interview with the direct supervisor, which felt like a waste of the interviewee’s time.
I don’t know whether their three-month performance bonus system is still in place. They deduct NT$3,000 from your base salary every month, and after three months, your supervisor evaluates you to determine whether you receive it. Even if the supervisor gives you a perfect score, they still have to write a report. It’s an extremely exploitative company.
Basically, there are a few long-time colleagues who manipulate things behind the scenes...
So new hires need to be careful on their own.
Don’t offend the veterans,
because the boss is easily manipulated by them.
Also, the boss is habitually forgetful, so you might end up being seriously inconvenienced.
If you can pay attention to these two points, you’ll be able to survive there~