Sources and scope
This page collects workplace experiences, questions and discussions submitted by users. Dates shown are submission dates, not periods of employment. Individual reports do not describe the entire company.
Read the community guidelinesNot really—the HR department even forgot to send the notification, so it was changed to a phone interview.
On 2020/07/15 (Tue.) at 4:00 p.m., I interviewed for the position of Financial Accountant at this company.
A second interview was conducted with the company's Finance Manger.
Interview questions:
Question: What are your current job responsibilities?
I answered honestly. The Finance Manger, Shit-dai-la, would pick at details from my answer and ask questions. The questions were extremely superficial (for example: What should you do if a proposal to the board does not pass but the chairman insists on carrying it out? / From an internal-control perspective, how many people should there be in the finance department? Answer: three. Shit-dai-la: Didn't you just say that you supervise four people? How did that become two? / And many other disjointed, incoherent questions...), making it exceptionally difficult to understand (was there water in their brain or in their ears?). During the first half of the interview, I thought it was a stress test.
During the second half, the interview turned into a complete communication breakdown (the questions were blunt and illogical). Whenever the Finance Manger, Shit-dai-la, did not understand something, there were many interjections such as “What,” “Fuck no,” and “Fuck that.” They also tried to discuss accounting standards they did not understand (IFRS 16); when they discovered that I had done some research on the subject, they simply changed the topic. Based on this, I concluded that the Finance Manger, Shit-dai-la, had an extremely weak accounting and finance background and that the company's internal operational risks were probably very high. They only knew a few cheap tricks yet had the nerve to conduct interviews. Fortunately, I did not burst out laughing during the interview (my composure began to fail at this point).
Key points:
This Finance Manger, Shit-dai-la, was extremely concerned with the most basic Taiwanese withholding-tax rate (repeatedly pressing me for an answer; internal monologue: apart from people still doing this work at accounting firms, who can remember all of it?).
I spaced out for a moment, as if I had returned to my accounting-firm days (Level 1 in 2010) and encountered the kind of client who took things out of context, pretended to understand things they did not, and treated the Company Act and tax laws as full of loopholes. After an entire hour, I was left in a state of not knowing what they were talking about: the other person was spouting nonsense and vulgarities, and I gained nothing from it (normally, conversations yield at least some useful information).
(If you are interested, you can look up the information on LinkedIn [I deactivated my account]. This goddess/accounting professional has a master's degree from overseas and, at a non-Big Four accounting firm, stayed only until Level 2 [1.6 years]. After that, they worked at DHL for only four months (What?), and then served as the company's Finance Manger for one year.) I was extremely angry after seeing Shit-dai-la's information (would they even be qualified as an accounting assistant?). Truly an indispensable goddess/accounting professional.
Interview process:
The initial interview was conducted by the HR Manager via Zoom audio. We agreed that the second interview would be conducted in person, and they said they would send an interview-notification email after the call. However, I had not received it even by the day of the interview (7/15). At 3:30 p.m. that day (originally scheduled for 3:00 p.m.), HR called to say they had forgotten to send it. PS: Since I had not received an invitation, I had not gone to the company. Therefore, the second interview with the company's Finance Manger, Shit-dai-la, was changed to an audio interview at 4:00 p.m. that same afternoon.
Interview advice:
Suitable for people who can tolerate the Finance Manger, Shit-dai-la's level of professionalism, fresh graduates who are blank slates and willing to learn unusual knowledge, or brave adventurers who want to spend time making a pilgrimage.