遠見天下文化出版股份有限公司

A legendary print magazine media outlet and ancestor of content marketing!

Accumulate an impressive résumé and experience.

Suitable for people without lofty ambitions—a good place to enjoy a comfortable retirement.

Harvard Business Review, abbreviated as HBR,

is one of the most influential management magazines in the world.

It was founded by Harvard Business School in 1922.

Known as the “Bible of management,” it is a classic publication that senior executives, management consultants, and business school students must read.

The office is on Nanjing East Road in Taipei’s Zhongshan District,

in an old commercial office building.

Layout: tightly enclosed, but with good natural light.

Upon arriving at the reception desk, the receptionist was busy and had no smile.

I was taken to the small meeting room next to the reception desk for the interview.

People were constantly coming and going, and I saw job applicants being interviewed.

To be honest, it didn’t leave a very good impression~ 💩

There were also staff members making business calls in the adjacent room—so noisy!

The layout and traffic flow in CommonWealth Magazine’s office are better XD

There were three interviewers:

a female HR representative, a female marketing manager, and a senior female marketing specialist.

Interview content:

1. Asked about the candidate’s work experience.

2. The candidate gave a self-introduction.

3. The female HR representative and female manager took turns explaining the position’s responsibilities and development opportunities. They sometimes interrupted each other, making the atmosphere somewhat stiff and awkward; it felt like they lacked interviewing experience…

4. “What aspect of this position do you think you could make the best use of your abilities in?”

5. Questions I wanted to ask.

During the interview, I felt that the interviewers were a bit strange. The senior marketing manager looked good and spoke directly without putting on airs.

“Her eyes kept drifting.”

“She asked the candidate about things unrelated to their work background.” For example, she asked about the reason for certain details of my appearance that day. Seeing that I looked tired, she deliberately asked, “What happened to your eyes?”

Although nothing illegal happened, the tone felt deliberate and disrespectful. An interview is a two-way process; both sides are choosing and evaluating each other.

If you care about the manager’s personality and the team atmosphere, evaluate carefully. Treat it as a challenge ❤️

After becoming a regular employee, you can purchase books at discounted prices.

One person is expected to do the work of several people. Four people left within the first month after I joined. The pay is low, there is a lot of work, and overtime is common, yet you may not necessarily receive overtime pay. The company atmosphere is extremely dull and rigid, with everything done by the book. I sincerely advise against coming here. As for the work itself, it took nearly a month just to wait, involving a series of tests, two interviews, and one written exam. Anyone considering applying should think it through carefully.

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1. When they contacted me for the initial interview, they neither provided nor informed me that I would need to take a test. Upon arriving, they asked me to fill out a personnel information form. Halfway through, two supervisors came over and said they had a meeting later, so they would interview me first. The interview ended quickly after thirty minutes (during which they painted a rosy picture of the job), and they even implied that men have an easier time getting promoted if they work hard (workplace discrimination?). They asked how much longer I would need to complete the form because there was also a personality test to take (without notifying me in advance or considering whether I had enough time). They then brought over a computer—a laptop about as slow as one running Windows 98. It crashed while I was writing the second page = =

I hurriedly contacted the reception desk, and the interviewing supervisor then said, “How about I print it out for you to fill in instead?” The entire interview process was full of unexpected incidents, which also demonstrated that the company itself had not prepared adequately in advance.

2. The second-round interview was directly with the company’s general manager, who claimed to be a legend—someone who had worked his way up from an odd-job worker to general manager. You can look him up on Google yourself. As soon as I went in, he started flaunting academic credentials, saying that his secretary, a National Taiwan University graduate, was excellent, and that the HR assistant manager sitting nearby, also an NTU graduate, was excellent. He then told me that compensation in the publishing industry is not high, and that I had neither academic qualifications nor specialized skills (I really don’t know where he got the self-confidence to decide after one interview that the other person had no expertise or ability). Simply put, this is still a very traditional publishing company, with the antiquated mindset that “everything is inferior, only studying is superior.” I sincerely advise anyone considering applying to think it through carefully.

3. By the way, I would also like to add that the interview process was full of disregard for job applicants. During the second interview, when answering questions—for example, when I answered about the KPI at my previous company—the so-called legendary general manager would turn directly to the HR staff member next to him and start discussing the pros and cons and rights and wrongs of that approach. They would discuss it for about a minute and a half, leaving you sitting there awkwardly.

1. Salary is paid on time

2. A suitable place to settle down and stay until retirement

1. The company culture involves a lot of empty talk. If you can tolerate it, you can stay.

2. There are an astonishing number of meetings, all of them brainwashing sessions where the boss indoctrinates employees.

3. The senior executives are extremely submissive, treating the boss’s words as sacred edicts and not daring to oppose them.

4. Out of touch with the times, and somewhat slow to accept new things.

Traditional and conservative; there will never be any groundbreaking attempts.

5. Extremely high employee turnover

6. No overtime pay; employees are forced to take compensatory leave

The people are easy to get along with

1. The boss is self-centered

2. No overtime pay

3. The political stance is pro-blue

1. The company has a complete overall system, and salaries are paid very punctually at the end of the month.

2. The office environment is quite good, and the hardware and equipment are also very comprehensive.

3. The employee benefits are considered good.

4. Just do whatever your superiors say. Don’t pay too much attention to salary or position, and you’ll be very safe.

5. If you prefer work with few ups and downs, it’s a good place for an early-retirement, carefree lifestyle.

1. Although overtime pay is provided in accordance with the law, applying for it will attract attention from management, ultimately making people afraid to apply. You also have to manually adjust abnormal attendance records (being at the company without applying for overtime).

2. There is an evaluation every six months, but because there are so many long-serving employees above you, promotion is extremely difficult.

3. As long as you do what you are told, that’s enough. If you have too many ideas of your own, your manager may think you are trying to replace him, while your colleagues may worry that you will surpass them, and they will treat you as an outsider.

4. It has the mindset of an old magazine publisher: the work is mostly the same, with little room for breakthroughs.

5. In a large company, interpersonal skills are more important overall. Flattery is still necessary. If you dislike sycophancy, I recommend not joining.

1. There are three bonus payments (paid in cash directly into your account; I received NT$3,000 for both the Mid-Autumn Festival and the Dragon Boat Festival), as well as employee gifts (such as coffee machines).

2. Salaries have never been late, and the year-end bonus is never delayed until after the New Year.

3. The compensation should rank near the top in the publishing industry.

1. An overtime culture is the norm. If you leave work at a normal time too often, your supervisor will ask, “Are you sure your heart is really in this job?”

2. The owner’s comments within the company reveal a bias favoring men over women.

3. There is a gap between senior management’s ideas and frontline realities. Every meeting consists of listening to the same old clichés. If senior management realizes that they have been saying the same things all along, have they ever considered why frontline employees are unable to achieve “change” in practice?

4. Once a year, employees are compulsorily mobilized to attend a large-scale meeting, filling seats so that there are not too many empty ones. For employees whose schedules are already extremely busy, this is both boring and disruptive to their work progress.

5. At the end of every month, HR requires all employees whose attendance times do not conform to standard working hours to use paper forms to “manually adjust” their attendance times to standard working hours. Of course, this is not intended to evade the fact that overtime was worked, since you can still apply for overtime compensation (compensatory leave). However, this practice of making employees delete and alter their actual working hours themselves in order to avoid labor inspections feels very wrong.

6. Salary adjustments are passive. Unless you are certain to be promoted to a higher position, your salary will never be increased.