Everyone seems nice on the surface.
On the first day of submitting my documents, they had me memorize the menu! It was in Italian and Chinese, but the menu itself was in English and Chinese. The entire kitchen staff were Taiwanese, so what was the point of memorizing the Italian menu?
I previously worked with Italians at another Italian restaurant, and it was never this absurd.
When I reported for my first day at the restaurant, my instructor had to order a boxed lunch for the manager and then asked me to wait a moment, which delayed the training. Afterwards, they turned around and said that my learning progress was too slow and that I needed to work faster. I immediately raised this with my instructor, but the instructor instead told the manager that my emotional reaction was too strong. I was left completely confused. I sincerely believe that if you are considering working for this company, you should think it through carefully.
The interview was pretty good overall.
You can refer to the other comments; many of the work SOPs are meaningless.
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Simply put—don’t waste your time interviewing!
I applied for a brand marketing position and was asked to bring a portfolio to the interview. However, the middle-aged man who claimed to be the marketing manager did not even look at it during the interview. He only asked a bunch of pointless questions, and the interview ended in less than ten minutes. He left me with the comment that they would notify me if there was a second interview, and that if there wasn’t, then there wouldn’t be any further contact.
A week later, I received notice of a second interview. Since I wanted to know the salary range, I agreed to go. Unexpectedly, when I arrived at the company, they only asked me to fill out an employment information form, then offered a salary that was utterly shocking (the salary listed on 104 should only be taken as a rough reference). The HR representative then said that the female marketing manager from the first interview had said it was OK and that there was no need for another interview (??? The person who interviewed me last time was clearly a man, and he also said he was the marketing manager). They wanted me to start working without even clearly explaining the job responsibilities? The internal organization felt completely chaotic. It was an absolute waste of time, so I directly declined the job after the interview.
The company's current situation is stated honestly.
The overtime culture is unacceptable.
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Managerial workplace bullying and discriminatory treatment of subordinates
If you want to pad your résumé, you should reconsider
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The interview was basically just listening to the manager lecture us.
No advantages
It is recommended that all scheduled interviews be canceled directly.
The high salaries listed for positions on job banks are just for show; in reality, they are very reluctant to offer such pay, and may even offer less.
Although I only joined the company recently, it did not take long to sense that the quality of ability and execution is very low.
The top management at headquarters clearly lacks ability and planning. Their logic is outdated, and they operate according to their own self-centered way of thinking.
Beneath the holiday-friendly facade lies the true nature of the company: during the interview, they were clearly very anxious and hoped I could start work as soon as possible to fill the position.
One person is expected to handle tasks across many departments. They seem to think that every employee who joins should be able to do everything. The female senior manager likes hearing people praise her.
If you want to make use of your professional skills, all I can say about this company is: “Run.”
Convenient transportation
The company has an overtime culture (leaving on time is strictly frowned upon) and does not pay overtime. The top supervisor (the “market auntie”) speaks especially harshly to highlight her own superiority. The turnover rate at headquarters is high (the combined tenure of five manager-level employees is less than five years), and there is no need to mention the other specialists. They only use emotional blackmail to deal with employees who have been there for over ten years... I truly do not recommend it, unless you are waiting to enlist, pursue further studies abroad, or take the civil service exam—in which case, it may be acceptable as a temporary stopover.
Disgusting.
A holiday business; whatever Feifei says is gospel, and accountants who help buy and sell stocks are considered one of us.
On the surface, everyone gets along well.
In reality, every one of them is scheming, selfish, and self-serving.
Someone who can put on a sour face is practically a miracle; everyone else is a smiling tiger.
They act cute and approachable on the surface but stab each other in the back.
There is no overtime pay (it depends on who the first-level manager is; on my team, I work 10.5 hours every day, with 5.5 hours made up through a flexible-hours arrangement on weekdays).
The more inexperienced you are, the more miserable you’ll be—not washing dishes, then stocking goods.
Food preparation? They’ll only send you over there when you have to take an exam.
The senior employees always stand at those same few positions. Every month, there is never-ending administrative work that requires extra time away from the customer-facing floor.
One piece of advice: if you’re serious about your career, go to a large company. Even hotels are better places to work than this.
Here’s a joke: five years of experience is enough to become a first-level manager.
So you have to endure five years first, waiting for the people above you to climb higher before you can climb higher too.
If you want to train your smiling-tiger skills, I sincerely recommend this job.
The company environment is pretty good, and the secretary who trains and supervises people is very friendly.
There’s too much to say.
First of all, the position I interviewed for was called Japanese Secretary.
Then I waited more than half an hour for the interview—about 45 minutes, I guess? I don’t know; I was waiting so long I almost fell asleep.
The sloppily dressed female manager finally arrived late. Then, every time she asked me a question, she insulted me. She said, “You’re so young—why would you want to be a secretary?” and “You have no experience—why would you want to be a secretary?” Then she said, “Oh, I only asked you to come because I wanted to see whether someone this young might be better.”
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Then she continued by saying that the current secretary was very good, but was leaving because of poor health and could no longer do the job—not because we forced him to leave.
But when I asked about the working hours, she said the official hours were 9–18, but as the secretary, you had to come in at 7 to open the office. Then everyone worked overtime, and since you were the secretary, it wouldn’t look good for you to leave earlier than me, the manager, would it? But I wouldn’t require the secretary to leave that late; you could probably get off work around eight or nine. Still, occasionally you’d have to work until eleven. Could you handle that?
Oh, right—we don’t pay overtime.
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She said similar things for about an hour. It was all about how the company was great but I wasn’t good enough, or how the secretary in Korean dramas was perfect and I should be like that too.
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The interviewer wasn’t even available at the interview time arranged by the company. I only filled out a form and then went home to wait for the second interview, which was a waste of my time.
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Every front-of-house supervisor is rude after barely a few words. Ask a perfectly reasonable question and the response is always sarcasm and mockery. The people training others say they are too busy to teach, yet still expect people to know what to do, while constantly criticizing them. In addition, when back-of-house employees have issues with front-of-house employees, the front-of-house supervisor simply says not to pay attention to them. Are people like this really supervisors...?
As for pay, it sounds nice to say that everyone at the same level receives the same salary, but in reality, no matter how many hours you work, you earn the same as everyone else. Working 10.5 hours a day is the norm, and there is no extra pay for working on public holidays. Highly unrecommended.
Finally, when you resign, you are required to wash your uniform and bring it back. Really awful.
None. I thought it was a Japanese company, but it turned out to be a Taiwanese company with Japanese branding.
After the interview, I received a job offer and onboarding notice from the company! So I resigned from my previous job, but the company notified me the day before my start date that the onboarding was canceled, leaving me unemployed! Absolutely outrageous!!
No benefits.
Three months of work experience. What’s frightening is that senior management will arrange for handpicked teammates to parachute in.
Within two weeks of joining, one colleague was dismissed; within three weeks of joining, an HR manager was dismissed.
Although it is unclear how senior management operates, they occasionally arrange for parachuted-in teammates who do not understand the company’s operations or procedures to come in and take charge internally.
The reasons for dismissal were quite bizarre:
One was that the position was no longer needed (so was the job posting just for show before that?).
The other was possibly poor work efficiency.
Both individuals were informed on the same day and disappeared that day.
After operating for so long, there is still no improved SOP. Appalling.
Salary is paid on time
Everything is a minefield.
The head office fires more than half of its employees each year.
If you don't like it, change jobs.
For short-term back-of-house part-time work, grit your teeth and endure it... Just stick it out until you achieve what you want. As for full-time positions, the promotion system seems quite well established, but the higher-level positions are almost fully occupied, so you’ll probably have to wait until the end of time to get promoted!
The back-of-house part-time work at Bellini is terrible. Every day, you just wash dishes, deal with grease-trap waste, and handle that damn inventory return. Unless you’re studying food and beverage service, they won’t assign you any other work. New employees then spend every day dealing with grease-trap waste, washing dishes endlessly, and doing prep work...
Unless you have no other choice, don’t come here. It’s a typical Japanese-style Taiwanese company. The working hours are long, and they even make you clock in early....
For part-time workers, overtime pay for working on national holidays and rest days is provided as an additional payment, but it isn’t calculated according to the Labor Standards Act.
The manager and colleagues are all very nice and care about everyone.
It was upsetting. During the interview, they originally said the probationary period was one month, but after I started working, I found out that the probationary period was three days.
The promotion system seems very well established, but all the higher-level positions are already fully occupied, so it is still fairly difficult to move up and fill one of them.
Although the compensation is presented as a monthly salary, the company says that the salary is calculated as an annual average. Therefore, if the salary discussed during the interview is NT$30,000, there will probably be about half the months in which you do not actually receive NT$30,000. The NT$30,000 includes pay for working on national holidays, overtime pay for working on rest days, and the perfect-attendance bonus. As a result, you will receive more in months with more national holidays or rest days, but in months without national holidays, you will not receive the agreed-upon salary. If you happen to start working in a month without national holidays and decide to resign after finding the job unsuitable after one or two months, the salary you receive will not reach the amount originally discussed—it can be quite a bit lower, starting from around NT$1,000 or NT$2,000 less! Pay for working on national holidays and overtime pay for working on rest days are not provided in addition; they are all included in the salary originally agreed upon. This is not clearly explained during the interview. They will only tell you that your salary is NT$28,000 + NT$2,000 perfect-attendance bonus, for a total of NT$30,000. The contract states that compensation follows the Labor Standards Act, which may lead people to mistakenly believe that working on national holidays and rest days counts as overtime and that they will receive additional overtime pay. In reality, the company lowers the base salary so that the total comes to NT$30,000. Your actual base salary is far below the amount originally discussed. Anyone considering interviewing for a job here should definitely take note!
To avoid paying the additional rest-day overtime wages required under the One Fixed Day Off and One Flexible Rest Day policy, the company unilaterally reduced employees’ base salaries (basic pay), making it appear that overtime was being paid when in fact it was effectively a disguised pay cut.