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Read the community guidelinesThe interview isn’t difficult; anyone with two years of work experience should be able to handle it easily.
I heard the boss doesn’t require overtime, and everyone leaves work on time.
1. The interview has two stages. The first stage is conducted via LINE: they briefly explain the job responsibilities, then ask you to raise questions first. There’s nothing particularly difficult about it.
However, the second-stage interview is quite strange. The interviewer doesn’t ask you to introduce yourself either, but tells you to ask questions again (which is somewhat difficult to understand—what’s the difference between that and the LINE interview?), and then asks whether you have any more questions. Only after you finish asking questions do they begin introducing the work environment in a casual, conversational manner.
2. The boss lacks generosity and directly complains about employees to interviewees. The boss also mentioned questioning why employees with poor performance should receive the same employee benefits as others—not bonuses, but things such as taking leave or drinking the company’s coffee, etc. This inevitably makes people wonder what this person’s standards are. Will everyone who joins later receive the same evaluation? Will the boss privately criticize people whenever they enjoy company benefits, asking what right they have to use them?
3. Although the company is a startup, it is understandable that there may be changes to its systems in the future or shortcomings in its industry strategy. However, the boss’s attitude requires careful consideration. The boss gives the impression of being stuck in old ways and unwilling to accept different opinions.
4. This is also a matter of company systems. If your career goal is to pursue a management position, I strongly advise against working here. The boss made it very clear that there are only two management positions here: the boss’s and one other person’s. Although that is indeed possible in a flat organization, there is no room for development for people who aspire to become managers.
5. The boss says that there is no such thing as internal transfers between positions or departments. The intention seems to be to tell employees in sales not to think they have an alternative path. However, from a job seeker’s perspective, hearing this makes it genuinely unclear what possibilities exist for long-term development at this company. (But if you simply want to make money and have no other aspirations, it may be worth considering.)
6. Although I was offered the position after the interview, I didn’t dare go. My conclusion about the company is that the boss wants to hire people with work experience and dislikes the way inexperienced newcomers do things. However, for people with work experience, this kind of boss is not particularly suitable to work with either: too stubborn, too narrow-minded, and with very limited promotion opportunities.
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It makes people feel very uncomfortable, as if their company were the only good one.