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Read the community guidelinesThe interview process involved pleasant communication with the manager; it felt like a conversation.
The job was initially described as A, but after joining, it turned out to be B. Then they said I would be exposed to A in two or three years??? There are communication problems between departments, and the staff responsible for salary determination have a poor attitude and use various tactics to try to lower your salary.
Just four IT managers chatting about past experience; there was no written test, and the interview result was announced very quickly. Based on previous years, it’s 16 months.
The main work involves writing web forms, which feels very easygoing and stagnant. They use a library developed in-house, but no one is specifically responsible for developing the programming technology library. As you can imagine, even if the underlying code is poorly written, no one would want to touch it. Full suit and uniform required at work.
When interviewing with a micro-enterprise, there may be department heads, managers, and HR present. In short, they will try to push your salary down, so it ends up being a base salary plus various allowances to come close to the market level. If you request personal leave, you may be asked whether you are going to an interview. Many department managers are smiling assassins: they are polite and smile at you to your face, but you never know how many covert attacks they have made behind your back. Your break times may differ from what was stated in the original employment contract, and you may later discover unreasonable performance evaluations. If you do not know how to flatter your superiors, you may very well be asked to leave or subjected to workplace cold violence—it feels like being used as a scapegoat.
Although the parent company is a listed company, the actual situation at the other micro-enterprises is different from what HR or the interviewer says! I recommend that everyone come and experience such a wonderful company for themselves.
The position applied for was a car rental sales representative. The interview was conducted jointly by HR and a supervisor. HR provided a fairly comprehensive explanation of the company, its systems, salary, and benefits, and was very polite and respectful toward the interviewee.
I only found out after asking questions:
1. A car rental sales representative is required to make at least 100 cold calls a day (the contact list must be compiled during off-hours).
2. Although the company is a car rental company, a department of approximately 5–8 people is provided with only one car for sales staff to use when looking for customers. The car must be reserved in turns. The supervisor also asked how I would look for customers when no company car was available. If the answer was to ride a scooter to find customers, the supervisor seemed dissatisfied, saying something like, “Riding a scooter isn’t very time-efficient.” It felt as though they preferred to recruit sales staff who own a car (the job bank posting only noted that a driver’s license was required and did not state that applicants with their own car would be preferred). Personally, I think it is bad enough that a car rental company does not have enough company cars for sales staff to use when looking for customers; on top of that, it seemed somewhat discriminatory toward interviewees who do not own a car. It left a really bad impression.
The person who contacted you by phone was polite and courteous.
They took the time to clearly explain the answers to your questions.
The initial impression online was good.
After the interview time had initially been arranged, I received an email reminding me to report two hours earlier. I assumed this was due to the company's scheduling needs, so I arrived early as requested. However, when I arrived, I was told, "Please decide for yourself where you want to go..." (Was I suddenly being left on my own?
When faced with an error that was not caused by the interviewee, they did not provide any further clear explanation and were unwilling to discuss it. They simply told me, "It's up to you what you want to do."
It was not my problem, but you represent the company...
Someone had spent extra time arriving at the company early. Even if the time was wrong, the situation should still have been handled properly afterward... How could they simply tell the interviewee to decide whether to stay there or go downstairs to 7-Eleven for coffee? Today, your company writes that talent is the company's most important source of value. If that is the case, is it really impossible to show an interviewee basic respect? Based on this response in the moment, I do not believe I would be treated with respect if I joined the company.
Even if today's interviewee was not the type of talent you were looking for,
you should not treat them casually. The sarcasm between the lines of the interview, the contempt in their eyes, and their tone and attitude will all leave the interviewee with a negative impression.
Want to join this company? You need to react quickly, and your analytical and judgment skills cannot be too poor. Outside of the company's working hours, you must willingly devote your personal time to finding and developing new clients.
You must cooperate with the company in obtaining certificates related to the position. But first, you have to endure the time spent preparing for and taking the exams. Jokingly, the company only has a "bone-strength certificate," which means that unless you have immense patience, faith, and enthusiasm for this industry, as well as limitless physical stamina, mental capacity, and analytical and judgment skills,
when facing a company with this kind of character, I believe its requirements and salary are not proportional.
The HR staff were very polite and courteous.
The interviewer was extremely rude and looked down on me throughout the entire interview. The interview questions had nothing to do with the company's job opening. The three interviewers took turns scrutinizing my résumé, finding fault with it, and attacking and belittling me.
Practicing the ability to filter companies yourself.
I interviewed for a software engineer position. During the manager interview, they asked about my past experience but not my technical experience. However, they really fixated on details in my report, asking about the purpose of my personal projects (and repeatedly probing if I didn’t give a convincing answer) and the percentage of growth that my projects contributed to my previous company. If they’re hiring an engineer, shouldn’t they be asking about problem-solving or coding experience?
The HR representative here called to invite me to an interview and painted a very attractive picture of the company’s future vision (a pie in the sky). But when I confirmed it with the manager during the interview, the manager said there was no such vision. When asked whether HR had said those things, HR then claimed not to know what had been discussed during the phone interview.
Oh, and by the way, the dress code is a full suit and tie. That hasn’t changed.
Interview questions
1. Self-introduction (HR hinted that I should talk more about relevant experience or strengths that match the job)
2. Q&A based on the self-introduction
3. Do you understand the company's job responsibilities and work format? (Did you search online?)
4. Questions about the strengths needed to perform this job
5. If hired, how would you plan your work?
The remote interview was less stressful. Both the HR representative and the interviewing manager seemed very nice, and the process was quite pleasant.
I have not joined yet
There are no pros to speak of.
As everyone has said, I found it strange that they expect you to wear a suit, and that 100 engineers do not want to take on this role. It feels like you will work overtime until you drop. They keep asking things like how long it takes to get up to speed—how would a newcomer know the company culture and systems, as well as the 100 colleagues and people involved in the projects? The atmosphere at this results-oriented company is basically: just work yourself to death.
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The HR department is extremely unprofessional. The interview time was changed again and again, and they even sent emails with incorrect content.
They also required the applicant to call and ask many times... The interview also included very ridiculous questions.
How can the HR department of such a large company be this terrible?
A high-level interview, with managers and vice presidents—about five people in total—waiting in advance to interview the candidate.
The position I interviewed for was programmer, and the interview took place around April or May. During the interview, one of the HR representatives leaned back in the chair, crossed their legs, and appeared disdainful. Overall, I felt disrespected and looked down on solely because of this interviewer.
When I look for another job in the future, I absolutely will not work with this company. If you do not show the respect that should be given, do you really expect to find anyone? What's more, your company was the one that proactively contacted me for the interview.
The manager seems very polite.
The salary is terrible and may be lower than at your previous job. Those with experience, please think twice.
At the year-end banquet, you can win many prizes, but you have to stay until almost 11 p.m.; if you leave early, you won't have a chance.
The company travel benefit provides a subsidy of 15,000, but receipts and group photos are required; reimbursement is based on actual expenses.
The standard workday is 7.5 hours. Overtime can be claimed after 6:00 p.m., but you can only start claiming it from 7:00 p.m. onward. Overtime is calculated in half-hour units and can be exchanged for compensatory leave or overtime pay.
The company provides a meal allowance of 2,400. In addition, the monthly salary includes your meal allowance, position allowance, welfare expenses, and labor and health insurance contributions, so the actual amount after deductions differs considerably.
The IT department uses small desktop computers, and there is a daily download traffic limit, which makes it difficult for developers to update packages and so on. If you are assigned to a core department, it is very unfavorable for technical development. Some managers do not respect technical expertise and only recognize SAs. Even if you have several years of work experience and a lot of experience from outside, they will still use you as a PG. Their SAs only use architecture diagrams; flowcharts are rarely used, almost never. When communicating with PGs and writing specifications, they mainly use textual descriptions and table schemas.
Even worse, the project schedules and estimated person-days here are set directly by SAs without discussing them with PGs. When holding meetings with users to discuss requirements, they will not bring you along either. Also, everyone at the company uses IE. If you stay in a core department, you will sooner or later become disconnected from new technologies outside and turn into a servant. Resources here are only reserved for senior employees. Let me offer one piece of advice: do not come here under any circumstances. If you do decide to come, make sure to negotiate for as high a salary as possible, because working here as a PG means being treated as a very low-status person. When work hours are estimated poorly, they will not admit that it was the SA's problem; they will only demand that the PG work overtime to finish, or ask you to leave work at the same time as the users, and so on. These constant changes that affect employees' personal lives make me sincerely feel that working here means treating yourself like a dog that must do whatever the company tells you to do. Also, flexible working hours must be applied for in advance (how is that considered flexible working hours?).
The mid-level manager was fairly friendly during the interview.
The written test lasted one hour, and the interview lasted one hour. They asked about relevant work experience throughout, but mainly because Chailease was planning to develop this industry, they asked a great deal about the industry's detailed operations and so on, for well over an hour. After I left, HR verbally told me that I would be hired, but in reality, I never received an offer. It felt like they were using the pretext of interviewing someone to inquire about industry secrets.
They also asked when I could start and about salary conditions, but in the end it all came to nothing.
Although at first glance it seems to place a lot of emphasis on one's background, once you are assigned to a unit, the work is all very basic business operations, and you have to work extremely hard to climb the ladder.
The benefits are not bad, but the pressure is still disproportionate to the salary.
Those who are good at socializing may want to consider it; those who are good at sales may also want to consider it. For everyone else, it is still better to look elsewhere…
Every day, we spend roughly 12 hours at the company, with no overtime pay. What’s worse, the supervisor has repeatedly said publicly in meetings that they hope employees won’t defecate in the company restroom. We spend most of every day at the company—are we supposed to become constipated because we’re not allowed to poop?