上古國際藝術股份有限公司

1. The boss (director) made a lot of money and did not like having too much money, so he decided to open a gallery to promote art.

2. The questionnaire was extremely detailed, with many questions, including “What do wisdom, benevolence, and courage mean?”, “Is your father a teacher or civil servant, and what influence has your father had on you?”, and “What is the difference between a job and a career?”

3. If they can promote you to a management position, they will make an effort to cultivate you ~ Hope everyone has the goal of working toward a management position!

4. The company’s employees tend to be older; if you are under 30, you may still be told that you are too old.

5. They enthusiastically invited me to interview and sent me interview invitations twice after I applied.

6. Please bring your own résumé. They do not provide a résumé form for you to fill out, but they do have many questionnaires.

1. They have no sense of time and even scheduled two people for interviews at the same time.

I arrived on time, but the previous interviewee had not finished yet, delaying my appointment by nearly half an hour. When I later wanted to leave, they immediately offered me water and asked me to wait a little longer with another person. After the first interviewee finished, the interviewer (the director) took another half-hour break before coming out to speak with me. In the end, my interview was an hour late—apparently, a job seeker’s time is not considered time.

2. They found someone to stall

During the half hour I was waiting for the interviewer (the director), someone who appeared to have relatively little status at the company spoke with me at length. When asked why I wanted to apply, I frankly said that they had contacted me, and that I wanted to know what had attracted them to me. The other person was extremely awkward ^^

During the conversation, I mentioned that I sometimes take freelance projects privately, and was told that the director does not like people taking freelance work because it means the work will not be done well. They even want to control employees’ personal lives... It was truly eye-opening. In addition, the company is located on the first basement level, with an auto repair shop above it, so it was very noisy.

3. The interview was insincere

After the interviewer (the director) came out, he asked me to introduce myself. I explained some of my work, but he repeatedly interrupted me while I was speaking because he wanted to call the marketing manager out. I politely asked whether I should stop and wait for a moment. He said no, and then continued interrupting me repeatedly until the marketing manager arrived. During this time, the director asked when I was born. After I answered honestly, he said, “Then you’re not that young anymore.” Thank you. No matter what, I was born 40 years later than you.

4. The job responsibilities were unclear

The marketing manager asked which artists I liked. After I answered honestly, the director left his seat to find the next interviewee—how polite. The manager then asked me to sell an artwork. After the simulated sales pitch, the manager gave me sales advice. I also asked, “Does the position I applied for require sales work? The job description did not mention sales.”

The manager replied, “There is commission for selling paintings. Everyone in our department needs to participate in sales and promotion, so we want to understand your abilities.” Whether there is commission is not the point; the problem is that you never mentioned this at all.

5. They belittled my interests and goals

The manager asked what my usual interests were. I suppose there was genuinely nothing else to ask and they just wanted to stall, so they told me to elaborate more on the things I was curious about. I said that I had recently been reading some books about ghosts and monsters, and they said I was reading children’s books. Thanks for the advice. Next, they asked what I thought about the next five years and whether I wanted to become a manager. I answered no, because becoming a manager would mean I could no longer do the things I originally enjoyed.

They found this extremely difficult to understand and even tried to persuade me. Sorry, we are just in an interview, not a debate—you do not need to convince me. As a result, I was labeled as someone unwilling to work hard or make progress ^^

6. An extremely rude and brutal interview

I hope everyone who reads this will think about what should be done. I truly regret not checking the reviews before going. I had originally refused to attend, but they sent me a second interview invitation, so I thought that such persistence meant I should go and take a look. It was a complete waste of time, but at least it was very eye-opening.

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They asked a lot of questions right from the start, even though the answers were already on my résumé, and kept asking about things that were completely irrelevant. The interview took place in a basement that had a damp smell, which was very uncomfortable.

The interviewer was very pleasant while speaking on the phone, and also seemed very nice when we first met. But as soon as salary came up, their attitude changed completely. They even sarcastically criticized me for not having sales experience, saying that I wouldn’t be able to sell products or work independently, and that I could only work as an assistant. They also said that educational background was unimportant and that work quality was what mattered. Later, I looked into it and found that the interviewer had in fact pursued a master’s degree themselves. There had also previously been news reports questioning whether they sold fake paintings.

Honestly, you won’t learn anything at this company either, because the boss looks down on people. Anyone considering interviewing with this company should think twice. It feels like they want to hire someone who is highly capable but willing to earn only 28,000 per month.

Beautiful first-floor environment

The boss's inconsistent thinking and overly fragmented instructions mean that the former employees' archived files contain a great deal of duplicate information. Basically, it is impossible to do one thing well here, but you can accumulate many things waiting to be messed up. The boss talks about outsourcing all day long—can anything be outsourced? If you graduated from an overseas school or National Taiwan University, congratulations: the boss is very impressed by foreign credentials and prestigious schools. As for what you actually know, it doesn't matter, because you are expected to know everything. Even if you have never studied something, the receptionist is expected to know online marketing, the marketing planner is expected to know IT, and so on. It is like expecting a monkey to fly to Mars by itself. Professional expertise is not treated as such; the boss thinks everything can be done quickly and easily. If you say that you don't know how or cannot do something, the boss will question your ambition and curiosity. No wonder the outsourced IT provider has consistently refused to answer or return this company's calls! I was truly driven to the brink and decided to resign. The company may invoke Article 5 of the employment contract during the employment period: employees who resign before completing one month will have their salary calculated based on the actual number of days worked. All I can say is that although art is quite interesting, it is not something one can casually try to run just because one has a little money, much less use it as a low-cost way to wear down art lovers' passion for art.

What do you know?

It was all clearly written on my 104 résumé... They probably didn't read it carefully at all.

My advice is not to go at all. If you don't believe me, search online for reviews from people who have worked there.

Interview process:

They called me first, and the conversation already made me feel that the job wasn't suitable.

Right away, they asked whether I intended to work full-time or part-time. I said part-time.

They said their work is very difficult and requires a lot of learning. I said I could provide samples of my work for their reference (after all, I have more than 10 years of experience, so of course I have plenty of work samples).

Then, halfway through the call, they went to answer another phone call... I let that go. Then they asked how I would work with them, so I said I could provide an example based on how I had worked part-time for an internet company in the past.

Then the red flags began:

1. They interrupted me without letting me finish, and insisted that website planning and copywriting were very simple—something their company already handled themselves (hello, is everything okay?). I was talking about the arrangements for working together part-time! And who says website planning and copywriting are simple?

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Interview advice:

The employer said: Their company only hires young people for full-time positions, not older people.

Because in the past, older and younger employees had worked together,

and the younger ones looked down on the older ones.

They don't seem to understand how to respect employees. They think they are the most capable and kept emphasizing that I needed to learn, learn, learn. I really don't know what I was supposed to learn, and when I asked them to provide examples, they couldn't provide any.

Times have changed. The boss is really not the most important person in an interview. The arts industry is tough, and people who are willing to invest themselves should be valued. Having good people working and striving together makes it easier for a company to operate smoothly. If people are so self-important, employees keep leaving and being retrained, and good candidates see the reviews and decide not to interview in the first place, how does that help?

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1. The job bank states that it has a five-day workweek with weekends off, but in practice, it means eight days off per month, scheduled independently on Saturdays and Sundays. You also have to support activities on holidays and then take compensatory leave on weekdays. Honestly, this kind of leave arrangement is completely different from what I understand as a five-day workweek with weekends off!! Do not assume that their leave arrangement is the same as that of civil servants.

2. A responsibility-based system with no overtime pay.

3. This is a retail store, so the lunch break is very unclear. Also, do not expect to have an office-worker mindset, because it is a retail store, which means everyone is essentially a salesperson.

4. During the interview, they strongly dislike you taking notes because their shortcomings will be written down. (They dare to do it but are afraid of people knowing.)

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The office location is old and messy. You can tell just by looking at the name—this company is very old-fashioned... outdated thinking, like people from a bygone generation... The people there aren't very polite.