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Read the community guidelines1. The HR manager and other employees are very polite. The female owner was busy and temporarily unable to come out for the interview, so the HR staff took turns coming out to chat with you, worried that you might develop a negative impression.
2. There was not much negotiation over the salary you requested.
3. The person in charge of the hotel spoke with you directly and gave you a general explanation of the job duties, as well as her desired direction and ideas. She also took you on a tour of the areas you would later be responsible for handling.
4. You can leave work early.
5. During the three major holidays, the company provides product discount coupons, with the employee price calculated after applying the company’s public discount price.
1. To attend the interview, you must exchange your identification at the driveway to the underground parking lot beside the hotel, then take the stairs from a small parking-lot entrance to the second floor. The area from the stairs to the second floor was extremely dark and so old that I wondered whether I had somehow traveled back more than forty years.
2. The previous designer apparently had some urgent, undisclosed matter requiring them to resign in great haste, and the timing was so sudden that it was difficult not to wonder about it.
3. When reporting for work, one of the required documents is an agreement that you must sign consenting to job transfers. This was not proactively mentioned during the interview, inevitably raising concerns that one person might be expected to handle everything.
4. There is no lunch break, no lunch break, no lunch break—it is important, so I’ll say it three times. You only have half an hour to eat, and you have to find an opportunity to eat at the restaurant yourself.
5. There is only one person in the hiring department, and work progress and arrangements are reported directly to the hotel’s highest-ranking person—the female owner. Therefore, it can be inferred that taking days off or requesting leave (personal leave, sick leave, or last-minute leave) may be extremely troublesome, because your substitute is the owner herself.
I was notified that I had been hired, but based on all of the above, I ultimately chose to decline the offer.
● Security Guard Interview
The interviewer was quite friendly and polite. Before the interview, I had to fill out the résumé, personality test, essay questions, and intelligence test again—about 60 questions in total. (If you plan to attend the interview, it is recommended that you allow at least 2 hours to complete everything smoothly.)
Essay questions:
a. What qualifications do you think someone working in the service industry should have? Which of these qualifications do you possess?
b. What suggestions do you have for this hotel?
The interviewer said that this position is only relatively busy on weekends and holidays when there are wedding banquets. Duties include directing cars where to park and controlling personnel entry and exit. It is a single-shift position, with working hours of 8.5 hours, including a 0.5-hour meal break at the company restaurant. The monthly salary is NT$32,000, including allowances. An overnight shift must be worked approximately once every 2–3 days, though shifts can be swapped with colleagues when necessary. The employer hopes to find a highly stable, long-term employee.
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The company's hardware environment is quite good.
I received an interview invitation and went in, then filled out four questionnaires (personal information, a personality test, an essay about the service industry and my thoughts about the company, plus a thick stack of logic tests). After spending an hour and a half on them, HR tactfully told me that the manager didn't like my work and asked me to go home and wait for further notice (I didn't even get to see what the manager looked like).
It was only after I asked that I found out the interview invitation had been sent by HR. They bring candidates in first and only then submit them for the manager's review. I was dumbfounded.
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Impressions from an interview a few weeks ago
1. Interview environment: Although there was clearly a conference room, the interviewer led the candidate to sit at tables and chairs in the hotel's small lounge, the kind used for afternoon tea. The interview information (four forms) had to be filled out under dim lighting, with one or two servers passing by nearby.
2. Interviewer: They liked asking pointless questions; it felt as though they were asking questions just for the sake of asking them. Asking follow-up questions was also met with skepticism, and the conversation was seriously out of sync.
3. Overall impression: I lost interest as soon as I walked in. I felt very uncomfortable during the interview, and from then on decided we should never meet again.