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Read the community guidelinesConvenient location, close to the MRT station.
The office is not large, and the interview area looks a lot like a classroom, though it is fairly clean.
The boss has a good attitude and is talkative. He is very engaging.
The company is in its early startup phase and, according to its plans, has very promising prospects.
Indeed, so far.
It meets all the hallmarks of a scam company.
I received an interview notification from 104. The office was not large, with probably only two or three people. The interviewer spoke very persuasively, and later the boss came in for a further interview.
How should I put it?
I just felt that this was a very superficial company. It is engaged in cross-border e-commerce and also has other operations; the positions currently being recruited are all sales-related. There were several issues:
1. For such a large-scale e-commerce operation, the entire company appeared to have only two or three people. Can it really operate? Supplier development, contact, follow-up service, consumer orders, shipping and logistics, customs clearance, account reconciliation, customer service, and so on should be the work of several departments, right? Is this company actually operating?
2. The boss is very eloquent and good at painting grand pictures. After listening to him, I felt as if he had control of all the resources on Earth, which really made me want to strive alongside him. But seeing the office brought me back to reality.
3. The bonus system was not very attractive, and the products were also an issue. I run an online shop myself, so I know that there is a going market rate for listing prices. However, this company's threshold for posting listings was really too low, which made me suspicious. If the costs are not very high, where does the company's profit come from? From what I heard, when a customer completes a transaction, the salesperson might receive more than the company. Even so, the bonus was still not high.
Conclusion: This is not a job I would consider. It felt like a scam.
Additional note: Later, when I was leaving, I ran into a classmate who happened to work in this building. I thought it was divine protection, so I asked her about it. She said that quite a few people had already come and gone from the company I interviewed with this year. Her relative works in building management, and they all knew that this company was always behind on its management fees. Employees who left had also complained that the boss delayed or underpaid their salaries, and that bonuses were simply ignored. The most classic comment was, "The employees are all richer than the boss."
What a disaster—such a waste of my time!