四維精密材料股份有限公司

NO

1. Only NT$1,000 is given for the year-end banquet.

2. Some departments have a duty roster system.

3. The salaries offered are not high.

4. There are virtually no benefits.

5. Obedience and acting like a slave are considered more important. As a result, a form that HR “wants to see” after three months becomes very important. If you want to survive here, fill in all the options that satisfy the company, because compared with what you have done over those three months, this company places more importance on a form measuring your subservience.

6. The job listings say that certain positions do not require business trips, yet they do require business trips. However, I believe all exploitative employers in this country play the same game anyway; in any case, the labor authorities do not dare to and will not investigate.

7. Some departments hold meetings almost every day. Be careful: when they think you are too expensive, they may use this as a reason to fire you. When they fire people, they call it “voluntary resignation,” which is completely illegal.

8. Because the company naturally wants to save money, exchanging overtime for overtime pay will be subject to “moral pressure” (not persuasion). Overtime must also be reported in advance, although many exploitative employers use the same tactic.

Given the reasons above, do you still think this company has anything going for it?

Recent graduates, don’t be foolishly lured here. The only relatively stable positions at this company are making tape, handling the accounts, and sales; the stability of the others is difficult to say.

Just search for the background of this company’s very first chairman and you will discover some problems.

Before the interview, they send a notification asking you to log in to the website first to take a personality test and fill out two Word files: a “Career Questionnaire” and “Basic Information for Interviewees.” Parking on the first floor is convenient, and the first-floor lobby where the interview takes place is bright. They first take you to the meeting room next door to complete the second and third pages of a logic test (to be completed within 30 minutes; they initially reserve an extra 3 minutes). When time is up, HR comes in to hurry you along, saying it isn’t important and telling you to just guess the remaining questions@@? Yet the accounting section only has two multiple-choice questions and two essay questions.

The actual interviewers were one HR representative, one finance supervisor, and one manager (presumably?).

(1) HR asked questions most of the time, focusing on details in my résumé—for example: Why did you write it this way? Why didn’t you write “detail-oriented” or “responsible”? Why do you think that way?

(2) The finance supervisor only asked what my previous job duties were. They mentioned the company’s 68-year history, but their attitude was not very good throughout. When I was asked whether overtime was common, their eyes wandered as I answered. They explained that new hires would have to learn everything from scratch and would definitely need to work overtime at first, and that implementing a new system would take even more time; it would depend entirely on each person’s ability.

(3) The manager (presumably) did not say a word from beginning to end. Ha! Quite something!

I just feel that, regarding (1), I had already attached a personality test to my application, and the notification also asked me to take another personality test on the website. Why did they keep probing into personality during the interview as well? I don’t really understand. Also, even though this was an accounting and finance interview, the logic questions actually accounted for a larger proportion than the accounting questions. Is the logic at your company a little strange too?

Regarding (2), it felt like the supervisor had not carefully read my résumé before inviting me to the interview. They kept saying, “So you’ve only done internal accounting?!” (Well, what else? I wrote it all out clearly on my résumé. Otherwise, perhaps your company should clearly state what kind of employee it is actually looking for.)

Conclusion: The company appears large in scale, but whether it is a good fit still depends on whether your personality can adapt to it.

The food is delicious

They spent 8 million purchasing a machine whose efficiency is far below that of one costing less than 500,000, and it keeps breaking down! The team leader is a nice person, but the business manager above them is a real idiot! They expect you to manually haul finished products weighing 300 kilograms or more with a pallet jack instead of letting you use an electric vehicle! No meals are provided for overtime, so you have to pay for your own! If you forget to clock in or out that day, you’re fined 100! It’s not deducted from your salary—they make you pay it out of pocket immediately!

You even have to mop the floor after work?! Do they think they’re a manager at Shin Kong Mitsukoshi? I didn’t apply to be a cleaner!