A small meeting room; I didn't feel very comfortable, and the environment was rather old.
During the interview, a junior HR representative first came in to explain the job responsibilities and vacancy, providing the basic information, including the company's working hours.
Of course, I also looked into the company's strengths and weaknesses, and found that the information was the same as what employees had written.
This position was apparently created to replace someone, and they gave several reasons for opening the vacancy. I found them 100% fake.
The main reason was that it was meant to cover for someone who had taken a long leave of absence; a managerial position would not normally be left vacant because someone took extended leave.
In the end, the HR associate director would decide who to hire. If professionals are not allowed to make the selection, then what does “professionalism” mean?
It would be equivalent to hiring someone the decision-maker liked talking to, which makes the risk extremely high—you never know when you might be dismissed.
Therefore, this did not feel like a very good company culture. Please consider carefully.
The HR representative and interviewer were both very polite and friendly. The interview was not difficult. It seemed that the interviewer cared a lot about the candidate’s background, so the conversation took a little longer. The follow-up response was also fairly quick. Overall, it was okay.
The company is difficult to find. The first floor is a factory, and you need to walk into the industrial park to find the entrance. You also need to take the elevator and exchange your identification card before going upstairs.
The working environment is okay—not very dirty, though the exterior looks very old.
I didn’t expect a company that has been around for more than 40 years not to have standard operating procedures in its production process. You’ll find that everyone says something different, and no one explains things clearly, causing employees to make mistakes and then blaming them afterward (isn’t our job just to follow one command and take one action?). The biggest problem in all of this is fundamentally communication. The supervisors don’t know how to lead people and really like to scold them, so the turnover rate is very high.
They expect things to be both fast and accurate, which is impossible. You have to inspect your work while doing it, there are many steps, and the work is assigned haphazardly. It’s really exhausting.
HR provides feedback to job applicants
1. The assessments completed at the beginning—personal information, a personality test (90 questions), Chinese-to-English translation, and answering questions in English (telling a customer to contact you in the future and asking the customer to prepare money for shipping)—do not affect the formal interview.
2. After the HR interview, the manager came in and left in less than five minutes. HR then came back in and said that they currently did not need an employee with my traits; they wanted someone who could forge ahead and directly lead overseas exhibition trips (the position interviewed for was Overseas Business Assistant).
3. They offer low pay but expect the assistant to be able to start work immediately.