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Extremely disrespectful toward interviewees. I interviewed with eight companies in total, and they were the only ones who casually called to arrange a time; they did not even send an interview invitation.
As soon as I arrived at the company, I was asked to fill out a form with very basic information about my education and work history. There was not even a place to write down my areas of expertise. The interviewer looked at that form and asked questions from beginning to end. They clearly had not even read my résumé, and it felt as though they did not know what position they were interviewing me for. I had applied specifically for “Online Community Marketing.” The position has been closed on 104, so I cannot copy the job description here, but it was roughly about running fan pages and blogs, and it also said that salary would be negotiable for candidates with relevant experience. Yet throughout the entire interview, the interviewer spoke in an extremely condescending tone and kept asking me, “What else can you do!?” (Isn’t it all written on my résumé?) I also said that my specialty was digital marketing, but he kept asking me: “Can you do print?” “Can you do radio?” “Can you do television?” (黑人問號.jpg)
I think I also said that I could place media advertisements, and the man once again said condescendingly, “You only know keyword advertising, right? Can you do ads on other websites?” Um... I had no idea what he meant by advertising on other websites—an ad network? A DSP platform? Something else? The man did not seem to understand the internet very well, because he also asked whether I could make micro-movies. Hello~ No one has talked about micro-movies for many years now. These days, it’s all livestreams and short videos! Well, since they do business with government agencies, being three to five years behind on information is probably normal for them. Oh, wait—I forgot that he did not even know what position I was applying for!
Later, I asked about the company’s main business. I am not exaggerating: the interviewer threw an incredibly thick bid proposal document on the table in front of me and said that they mainly handled government tenders, blah blah blah. Hmm...
The best part is yet to come. Seeing that I was using a Mac laptop, the man asked me, “Are you familiar with Keynote?” By “familiar,” I mean things like animations, right? Animations? Animations? Animations? So the important things in a presentation are not its structure and content, but its animations? Well, that certainly opened my eyes, haha. After I left, I even wondered whether I had misunderstood something about Keynote... No, I hadn’t. It really was about animations. Let me put it this way~ It was like asking a music student, “Are you familiar with Mozart? Then can you play ‘Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star’?” That is probably the most accurate analogy I can think of.
This was truly the strangest interview I have experienced in all my years in the workforce.