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Read the community guidelinesThe salary is pretty good—over 34,000.
I wish I could have seen this article back then.
There’s no denying it:
The salary is quite generous.
But first, ask yourself whether you can withstand
being pressured by the seniority system.
New hires must bear the pressure of meeting sales targets.
They expect you to sell in a direct-sales-like manner,
pressuring customers so they cannot talk back.
To put it nicely, it’s a standardized system that requires you to do things their way.
Although performance is measured as a team,
the way everyone competes for sales
will make you think you’re working at a luxury boutique
(when it’s not a luxury boutique at all).
You even have to buy your own toilet paper and supplies.
Any mistake, no matter how minor, could result in a fine.
(They will do everything they can to fine you.)
Oh,
and there’s also overtime pay.
Their motto is:
“People who work overtime are simply incapable of finishing their work within working hours.”
Other than new product launches, for which you can report overtime
(and still need the store manager’s approval),
everything else is basically volunteer work :)
The salary is estimated to be around 35K.
The overall impression was extremely poor, and I felt very disrespected. First, I had to fill out a long-winded questionnaire in a cold, unwelcoming place, including on-the-spot English translation exercises (Chinese to English and English to Chinese). The interviewer was also cold and distant. The work atmosphere seemed very poor (colleagues hardly talked to one another), and it was extremely quiet. Design and planning are handled together, including graphic design, visual merchandising, and event planning. The workload seems endless, yet employees are expected to leave on time, with no overtime pay—in effect, you have to take the work home because the electricity and water are shut off as soon as working hours end. The second interview was even more unreasonable: before it, I had to prepare “two” event-planning PowerPoint presentations at home, including design drafts. I felt this was very disrespectful. Unless you are especially fond of the Issey Miyake brand, this job would probably be very difficult to endure. This position seems to have been posted for half a year or more. Finding someone for it would truly be a miracle. If the company genuinely wants to find someone, management needs to reflect on its practices.