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The culture of internal strife is extremely severe.
Upper management specializes in fighting against the employees below them.
In the two years since the company was founded, more than 10 people have already left, one after another.
There are only three people in the company now, anyway.
1. Freedom—basically, apart from clocking in and out, supervisors generally do not pay much attention to what you are doing. You can go to the park downstairs or a convenience store anytime without any problem.
2. If you are on the 22nd floor, there are small snacks to eat every day.
The position is supposedly in the Presales department, but in practice it is an FAE role. The department manager completely disregards the after-sales experience aspect. There is no training, so you cannot learn any technical skills and can only study on your own, ask the R&D team, or ask senior colleagues. There are also a lot of meetings and empty promises.
The office environment is good, and the location is good too.
The company’s performance is declining and it can no longer support several overseas operations; the year-end bonus was $0. The current products have no competitive advantage.
The sales team spends 80% of its time preparing meeting materials and traveling to meetings. No one knows how many meetings there will be in a week. We also have to prepare meeting materials for supervisors and request materials from overseas sales teams. Meetings are just opportunities to pass the buck and assign blame. The internal competition is extremely intense. Because frequent meetings are required, you can learn very impressive, flawless ways of speaking and defending yourself here—but there is no personal or professional development at all.
Not punctual
During the first interview, they said there would be a second round. The interviewer said—actually, the interviewer said that if there was a second round, the second-round interview would involve conducting market analysis, research, and investigation to see which customers and competitors there are. Is that right? I haven’t even joined yet. You should tell me who the competitors are after I join, and then I can conduct the market analysis! I’m not familiar with your products yet. Besides, shouldn’t I learn about your products and the market while doing the job? Only then would it be possible to analyze competitors, products, and the market, right? I haven’t even received any pay from you yet—why should I conduct market research? How would I know who your competitors are, which potential customers there are in the Middle East, or what the product applications are? Of course, after I join, you can tell me who they are, and then I can develop them and conduct market research. I think they want to use my report to gather data! There are plenty of people like this out there.