遠雄建設事業股份有限公司

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I received an invitation from Farglory and scheduled an interview. Before the interview, there would first be a phone screening to learn more.

During the phone screening, the HR representative asked, “Is there anything you’d like to know?” I asked, “What time do people usually leave work? Is overtime pay provided?” Apparently, the HR representative was sensitive about these questions and canceled the interview…

There are no advantages I can point to.

I can only say that the comments on Jobstreet are true. I should have trusted them and declined the interview. Of all the companies I’ve interviewed with recently, this one gave me the worst impression.

I don’t know what was going on with the people there. Normally, when regular employees see an unfamiliar person standing outside the entrance looking confused, wouldn’t they usually show some concern? Everyone in the entire company was extremely introverted—I have no idea what they were being so introverted about. = =

During the interview, they kept asking about relevant experience from a previous job. Even after I explained, they continued to distort what I was trying to express, and they barely introduced the responsibilities of the position. The questions they asked were also very vague, so I had to keep spending time trying to figure out what the interviewer was actually asking and how I should answer. After the interview, I felt completely drained... In the end, after spending more than an hour interviewing me, when the HR staff escorted me out, I casually asked a little more about the company’s structure (because at the beginning I had gone to the wrong floor and thought that was also their company, and the staff there were equally cold). The HR representative escorting me out actually replied, “You don’t need to worry about that for now.” = =

Putting aside whether they intended to hire me, isn’t answering interviewees’ questions properly and building a professional image for the company the most basic responsibility of HR? I can’t even tell who was being unprofessional anymore...

They want you to come in for an interview, but require you to call them back? Does this even count as a benefit??? Saving the company money?!

The Far Eastern Group's related social controversies are mostly connected to former chairman Chao Teng-hsiung's involvement in a series of corruption, bribery, breach-of-trust, and asset-stripping cases concerning the Affordable Housing project and the Taipei Dome. These cases involved illegally changing land-use designations, bribing officials, and nominee transactions. Chao Teng-hsiung was sentenced to seven years in the first trial and is still involved in litigation. The cases have sparked controversy over conglomerates allegedly “using money to grease the wheels.”

The following are major social cases and controversies involving Far Eastern in recent years:

Taoyuan Affordable Housing bribery case (2014): Chao Teng-hsiung was suspected of bribing Yeh Shih-wen, then deputy county magistrate of Taoyuan County, in exchange for the right to undertake the Bade Affordable Housing project. This marked the beginning of the series of corruption scandals.

Taipei Dome scandal and series of bribery cases (2017): Prosecutors discovered that Far Eastern was involved in the Taipei Dome and New Taipei City land development projects, including the former Haishan Coal Mine site and Xinzhuang Xinya Electrical Appliance site. Chao Teng-hsiung was accused of bribing officials and councilors, such as Chou Sheng-kao, to facilitate the projects, and was also suspected of stripping assets from Far Eastern Life Insurance. He was initially sought to be sentenced to 24 years and was later released on bail set at the exceptionally high amount of NT$550 million.

Far Eastern Life Insurance asset-stripping case and transaction controversies: Investigations by prosecutors and the Investigation Bureau found that commissions from Far Eastern's real estate transactions were allegedly funneled back into the Chao family's accounts, in suspected violation of the Securities and Exchange Act and the Insurance Act, as well as involving the stripping of assets from Far Eastern Life Insurance.

Illegal occupation of state-owned forest land case: The Far Eastern Culture and Education Foundation was accused of illegally turning the state-owned protected forest land in Miaoli that it had adopted into a private family cemetery called “Tianshui Garden.”

Taipei Dome private-box controversy (2024): As a public infrastructure project, the Taipei Dome was revealed to be the subject of Far Eastern's attempt to turn a large number of VIP boxes into a “private reception venue” without reasonably accommodating the Taipei City Government's event needs, sparking public discussion about the public-interest nature of the BOT project.

A publicly listed company with high turnover, yet only two reviews are visible—suggesting that management is competent.

This company is quite something. The atmosphere was poor during the first interview, yet they invited me to a second interview online.

Moreover, the supervisor conducting the second interview was not the hiring manager.

The second interview lasted a long time, and the questions were very detailed, all about the financial project I had implemented at my previous company.

So I spent considerable effort explaining the key points and methods of process improvement, which was essentially providing them with a complete process-improvement system analysis and recommendations.

After asking about the expertise they wanted, the non-hiring manager said that there was nothing particularly appealing about me as a candidate. Then the interview ended.

However, several months have passed, and the position is still posted on 104.

These days, it is not uncommon for people to use recruitment as a pretext to scam applicants out of money, sex, personal information, or professional expertise, so there is no need to be overly surprised.

But if you encounter someone with poor ethics who tricks a job seeker into providing free professional consulting and then speaks ill of them behind their back, that is going too far.

The above case is provided for everyone’s reference. Whether to attend after receiving an interview invitation is up to you; consider it carefully.

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During the interview, the interviewer looked down and used their phone, showing disrespect toward the interviewee

The HR department’s excessive overtime situation is outrageous. People work until 1 a.m., go home to sleep for a while, and then continue working. The head of HR requires mid-level managers to remain stationed in the office even on typhoon days (I don’t know whether this has changed). Colleagues go to the doctor and have dinner after their official working hours, then return to the company to continue working overtime. Weekends are no exception; those who don’t go to the company simply take the work home to do it. The most common thing I hear from colleagues’ partners is, “Do you want a divorce or do you want to resign?”

Long working hours would not be a problem in themselves, but the head of the department manages subordinates in a militarized manner, constantly instilling in employees the idea that they must devote themselves to the company and repeatedly dismissing what subordinates do. As a result, this is an extremely high-pressure department with no sense of accomplishment. Although the department claims to want innovation, in practice it does not want to spend more money or manpower improving existing processes. All I can say is that it is a very good training ground, because after working in this department of this company, everywhere else feels tolerable.