鼎大股份有限公司

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A company where everyone, from top to bottom, has an inflated sense of self-importance. Turnover among employees with short tenure is very high. Salaries and year-end bonuses are lower than those at typical companies in the same industry, and there are no prizes at the annual company party raffle. It is a family business, and the boss looks down on people.

Waited for an hour, and when I asked, they were still in a meeting?

They made the interviewee wait for an hour without notifying them beforehand that there would be a test, and then the test itself took another hour. What a waste of the interviewee's time—did they think the interviewee had no other interviews?

Pros

Applied for the English-speaking assistant position for the sleeping bag division

Process: 1. Chinese-English translation test 2. Terminology explanation 3. Expectations/impressions of the job & biggest concerns

Overtime

There is no regular overtime.

Overtime is only more likely during the busy season (September–February).

Business trips

I would accompany customers on a business trip to a factory about once a month (approximately one week each time).

The company covers meals, accommodation, and transportation for business trips.

Leave

Taking leave depends on the supervisor’s management style.

The supervisor who interviewed me has a relatively open-minded management style.

As long as it is discussed and coordinated in advance, consecutive days off can be taken.

However, it is also possible that I may need to send emails and work progress updates during my leave.

Salary/Career development

Starting salary: NT$32,000 for bachelor’s degree holders / NT$34,000 for master’s degree holders

Salary adjustments depend on the company’s overall revenue and performance.

Based on performance, an assistant may be promoted to a sales position; in principle, the focus is on developing assistants into sales staff.

Products

1. Sleeping bags

2. Garments

3. Fabric sourcing

Customers are mostly outdoor sports brands.

Sales roles are divided into order follow-up and business development.

Environment

It is not a newly renovated building,

but it is not especially frightening either.

It has the appearance of an older building.

The supervisor who interviewed me seemed very easy to get along with, and the interview conversation was pleasant overall.

Since the general manager was not present, I did not interview with them (to be continued).

1. There is no business-trip allowance.

2. A two-year contract must be signed. If you leave before the contract ends, you must repay the company’s training costs, prorated according to the remaining contract period.

3. The work atmosphere is relatively businesslike. Everyone focuses on their work, so there is not much joking or ordering afternoon tea together.

4. Training includes a one-month internship at the Xiamen factory to learn how to make sleeping bags (there will be no other work assignments during this period).

5. Since the company is relatively small to medium-sized, its policies and procedures are more flexible, with no special rigid requirements.

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The company environment is extremely scary, very run-down, and the atmosphere is bizarre. The interior feels like it is in desperate need of urban renewal. Just seeing this kind of office made me not want to come to work.

After completing the test and speaking with a male interviewer, I felt that my time had been completely wasted because I could not accept this kind of environment. This is also a perpetually open position, so the turnover rate must be extremely high.

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．Right from the start, I spent nearly an hour taking a translation and terminology-explanation test.

．You have to sign a two-year contract; if you terminate the contract early, you have to pay a termination fee.

．The company supervisor gave people a very bad impression with their attitude!

The company explained that, after being hired, you would go to its factory in Xiamen for one month of training. During that month, you would have to learn how to make sleeping bags. Afterward, you would return to Taiwan to work.

The interview was divided into four parts:

1) Translation and terminology-explanation test (whether there is a test may depend on the position applied for)

2) Presumably an HR interview

3) An interview with a woman (I saw people online saying she might be the vice president?)

4) An interview with the chairperson

Setting aside the translation test, the interview overall made me increasingly uncomfortable.

In particular, the second woman kept picking at me from beginning to end, sizing me up with an extremely arrogant attitude. She also asked whether I was in a relationship and whether I was considering getting married. She even told me directly that she thought I would not be able to withstand the pressure of training at the factory. I really wanted to ask her how she had concluded that I had poor stress tolerance. (My résumé clearly stated that I had previous experience working in a factory, yet she kept repeating like a broken record that the factory environment was terrible and not what I imagined, and that she thought I might not be able to stay there, and so on.)

After this woman finished questioning me, I already wanted to leave. Little did I know that she would ask me to wait, and then an even more astonishing chairperson showed up.

I would like to offer this company some advice: instead of spending time criticizing and disrespecting interviewees in this way, it would be better to at least briefly review an applicant’s résumé before notifying them of an interview. This would reduce the waste of both company staff’s time and interviewees’ time.

The interview process consisted of a written test, an HR interview, an interview with the vice president, and then an interview with the general manager. For a small- to medium-sized enterprise, the selection process was rigorous.

The HR representative and vice president respected applicants and provided detailed explanations of the company’s operations, compensation, and benefits during the interviews.

The general manager’s attitude toward applicants was extremely poor. He even criticized and sarcastically mocked an applicant’s grades from junior high school—yes, you read that correctly! He was definitely berating the applicant over their “junior high school” grades from N years ago. Unless you attended a school at the level of Jian Guo High School, Fu Hsing Senior High School, or Taichung First Senior High School, don’t apply. Even if you graduated from a national university, the “great” general manager will instead criticize your senior high or vocational high school and berate you over your junior high school grades!