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1. The office is very small and cramped, with a group of people squeezed together, creating a strong sense of oppression.
2. Before the interview, HR requires you to complete the electronic file of the “Job Applicant Resume Form” (the form requires you to provide your LINE account) and send it back. On the day of the interview, HR had not even reserved a meeting room for the interview, so I was moved around and made to conduct the interview in different places in front of the office employees. In the end, the interview was held in a completely transparent reception room, with many people outside staring at me. It felt very unpleasant.
3. The interview consists of two rounds, but they did not inform me in advance that the interviews would be held separately. First, there was an interview with the HR manager. After listening to my self-introduction, the HR manager said that everyone employed by the company would contact my former company to verify my reputation and whether my description of my work experience was truthful. After passing this round, there would be another interview with a manager from the same department, but I would only be informed of the interview time if I passed. (If I had known the interviews would take so much time and be held separately, I would have directly declined this company’s interview at the outset.)
4. All employees have to join the company’s LINE group, so supervisors or colleagues may still send messages after work. The more flattering way to describe it is that they are reminding you about tasks to be assigned the next day—but discussing work matters in the group after work does not count as overtime, so no overtime pay is provided.
5. Working hours are 9:00–18:00 or 8:30–17:30, with 3–5 shifts to choose from. You may have to work shifts on holidays. HR said that working hours are flexible (within 46 hours), so working on holidays does not count as overtime. If overtime is required, the maximum is 4 hours and must be applied for. The salary offered is the full amount, including the NT$2,400 meal allowance, labor and health insurance, and perfect-attendance bonus. The perfect-attendance bonus is deducted based on the number of days absent. Bonuses are provided for the three major traditional holidays; the year-end bonus depends on the economic situation. After six months, you receive 3 days of annual leave; after one year, 7 days.
6. The manager in the second round thinks very quickly, but talking with the interviewer was like talking past each other. I clearly asked what expectations he had for someone in this position, but he answered with the steps for work allocation—he was talking about something completely different. He was very forceful, but if work is about whoever stubbornly argues their way through winning, then it is better not to join such a team!
7. They said they would respond within that week, but I never heard anything. I turned down other jobs, and in the end, I got nothing. I feel that this company truly has the mindset of looking for a better option while keeping its current one, and I do not know what they think of people who come for interviews.
The workplace feels a little small,
but it also feels warm and cozy.
The interview went smoothly, and they said I could start work in a month.
After you turn down your other job offers and decide to join this company,
about a week before you are due to start, they call you and say they have found someone more suitable and you don't need to come in after all!
I had heard people in the industry talk about this kind of “riding a donkey while looking for a horse” mentality before,
but I never expected to actually experience it.
It was truly such a waste of someone else's time!