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1. The company’s standard application form uses a very outdated design and asks for information such as your national ID number and family members’ details.
2. It felt like a fake interview conducted mainly to survey current salary levels. If you didn’t answer the question about your previous salary, they would keep pressing you.
3. The design position included an on-site test, but the computer provided was a Windows XP office machine with CS6 installed. It would crash when Illustrator and Photoshop were running simultaneously. Were they trying to mess with applicants, or testing their abilities?
I’ve thought about it for a long time, and there really aren’t any.
The company is in an elevator building, has desks and electric lights, and employs someone to clean the office. Does that count as a benefit?
1. There is severe infighting, and people often report on one another to supervisors—a speechless workplace culture. I just want to do my work properly.
2. They don’t trust designers’ expertise. Designs have to be put to a vote by other departments and then revised according to ridiculous opinions.
3. The computers provided to designers at this company are still running Windows XP and Windows 7, with only 4–8 GB of memory. Many software programs are no longer supported, and the entire computer setup can be described as antique-level. I requested a computer as soon as I started working there, but it still hadn’t been replaced by the time I left.
4. They ignore employees’ hardware requests while constantly making unreasonable demands and insulting your designs. Making major revisions ten times is just an ordinary day.
5. Whether in fashion design or visual design, “designer” is a position with no status or dignity at this company. Here, designers are merely workers who revise designs according to the boss’s peculiar preferences. Yet when business performance is poor, it is the designer’s responsibility.