台灣怡倫家居股份有限公司

Korean brand’s Taiwan branch

The brand and its stores are both excellent

Internal staff engage in intrigue and infighting

Everyone acts based purely on emotion

Senior colleagues communicate through sarcasm, angry scolding, and emotional outbursts

The Korean-appointed CEO is also unwilling to deal with it

They also favor people who flatter and ingratiate themselves

And frequently change decisions without notice

This has also caused

High employee turnover throughout the head office

The Taiwan company lacks complete systems and procedures

Operations are handled entirely manually

It looks glamorous on the surface, but there are many problems

As a result, there are many fundamental problems with matters that cannot be resolved, becoming personnel problems and creating a vicious cycle

Almost no advantages

The entire company shows extreme disrespect for people. The Korean managers have made no effort to understand the Taiwanese market, and everything is even more authoritarian than the Communist Party. When the Korean top executives come to Taiwan, they make everything sound wonderful, but the entire company is as hypocritical as can be. It is hard not to lose respect for Korea because of this. The whole organization is steeped in an extremely arrogant “Great Korea” mentality, constantly saying, “If Korea can do it, why can’t Taiwan?”

The systems are also extremely chaotic. Even an assistant has to apply through the HR department at the Korean headquarters. The Taiwan general manager is basically a yes-man for the Korean top executives—without brains, logic, or backbone, but very good at making grand promises. The company is particularly fond of deceiving young people with no work experience into joining.

If anyone can understand Korean, they can search for FURSYS (the parent company behind Eilun) on Korean company-review websites. Even a simple translation is enough to understand how serious the company’s problems are and how arrogant the Koreans are.

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I had 4 interviews.

First interview: The Korean manager and HR were originally supposed to interview me together, but HR had something come up and couldn’t come. I waited for them for 45 minutes, and they had absolutely no sense of time.

So I only interviewed with the Korean manager. Since we were both Korean, the interview atmosphere was pretty good at the time. He said that if I were hired, I would have to learn a lot.

Second interview: HR and a manager from another department were supposed to interview me, but only HR showed up. He said the interviewer from the other department was very busy.

The interview itself was very simple and lasted only 15 minutes, but afterward HR asked me to provide a detailed salary statement from the company where I was currently employed.

Third interview: The Korean boss conducted the interview.

The boss didn’t want the interview atmosphere to be too serious, so he told me to relax.

But personally, I felt that a relaxed interview would turn into ordinary chitchat....

After asking about my motivation for applying, he formally began the interview. I felt that he hadn’t seriously read my résumé at all. Then, during the conversation,

he asked why I had worked for so many companies but didn’t stay at them. He also said that, in his opinion, Korean students who graduated from schools in Taiwan didn’t have much ability—they had merely studied in Taiwan—and said that they were terrible and so on.

After hearing that, I really didn’t understand why I was interviewing there...

He also asked whether I had a boyfriend/girlfriend~, and explained to me why none of the Korean employees at their company were dating anyone...

In the end, the boss said that a fourth interview was still needed, but he couldn’t clearly explain why a fourth interview had to be conducted.

Although I kept considering whether I should continue interviewing, I really wanted to change jobs at the time, so I still went to the fourth interview.

Fourth interview: It was conducted by the manager from the other department who had not shown up for the second interview.

Of the two managers from the other department,

one manager interviewed me for 40 minutes. The content of the interview was actually unimportant because she was not responsible for the department I had applied to.

She kept asking, “Do you know what this job is?” and then started explaining the work done by her department.

The other marketing manager was 40 minutes late and then asked me, “What do you think you will learn after joining the company?”

I told him that I would be able to learn from my experience at Yilun and gain an understanding of Taiwan’s furniture industry and so on.

But he asked the same question again: “What will you get from it....”

I really didn’t understand how someone who was 40 minutes late could ask such a vague question, and then the interview ended.

So, in conclusion, if I joined this company, would I gain money and exhaustion?

That was my interview experience. Based on the interviews, I felt that this company had an extremely poor sense of punctuality and that there was no communication among its internal staff. I also felt that several employees had a very arrogant attitude.

Because it was a Korean company, I went into the interview with high expectations, but I never expected to be met with even more disappointment.

Although this company did not hire me, looking back now, if I had been hired, I’m sure I would have been worked to the bone.

The stores are very attractive, with a minimalist design.

Everyone in the company revolves around the Korean general manager. The general manager frequently changes decisions on a whim, meetings have no clear objectives or focus on improvement, and are limited to endless nitpicking. The systems for finance and human resources all have loopholes. If performance targets are not met, employees will be driven out. There are many manual processes, and compared with the brand’s glamorous exterior, the company lacks the import-export expertise and professionalism of an international enterprise. The overall employee caliber is not high, and there are many barriers to communication.

Provided a glass of water

An extremely long-winded interview... with no clear focus, and they required the interviewee to provide a free proposal. It really made me feel that it was merely a way to collect ideas... It felt like a waste of time