福格銘有限公司

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I think this company is a huge red flag. I clearly stated my salary expectations on my résumé, but right at the beginning of the interview they said they might not be able to offer that salary and that this was the absolute maximum (then they wrote it down). Besides expecting you to know everything, they also judged that my skill level might not be sufficient without even looking at my portfolio to assess it. How can they say my level is inadequate when they haven’t even looked at my portfolio?

They then said that the company also has many designers in mainland China, and that their salaries aren’t high either (so you know how low your offer is), but that their skill levels are very good, blah blah blah. Honestly, based on the website they showed me, I really don’t think their skill level is so high that it deserves such exaggerated praise.

They also said that looking at a portfolio is useless anyway, because every project has to go through many rounds of revisions, so there’s no point in looking at it.

No matter how well someone can capture a style when they first join, there will always be an adjustment period. I was stunned when I heard that. They then said that many of the graphic designers who joined later ended up following the style of the previous graphic designer (at that point, I felt they must have replaced quite a few people). They said that if the previous graphic designer hadn’t gone abroad for further studies, they wouldn’t have needed to hire anyone (in short, they seem stuck in the past).

I actually found it very disrespectful. They said my skill level was insufficient without even looking at my work, and judged that I lacked stability just by looking at how long I had stayed at my previous companies. (They said they didn’t count the years since graduation because I graduated more than five years ago; the three companies listed on their form add up to roughly four years of experience.)

This is probably the longest review I’ve ever written. I genuinely feel that the interviewer showed no respect for the people coming in for interviews. (Although her tone was calm and flat throughout, it was basically just her looking down on you, haha.) Even if the final decision was made by the boss, no matter how little you understand, you could at least make a show of flipping through the applicant’s work to get some idea of it. That would still be better than immediately saying their skill level was insufficient.

In short, I strongly do not recommend this company.

1. Free coffee is available.

2. Free food is available.

3. The boss is very loyal and willing to teach.

4. They are very generous with salaries.

5. Located in a technology park, with fairly convenient transportation.

1. There are too many people in power, which leaves subordinates unsure whose instructions to follow.

2. The company's hierarchy is extremely rigid. New employees are expected to sweep and mop floors, buy meals, take out the trash, and make coffee.

3. Overtime is normal; leaving on time means you are considered not serious about your work.

4. The boss often lives in their own world.

5. Endless Excel spreadsheets and AI image files.

Summary -

People who can stay at this company for a year are truly impressive. Under normal circumstances, people definitely leave after only six months.

The boss often has sudden whims and wants to do a whole bunch of things, forcing everyone to accept them without ever asking for the opinions of the people below.

The scariest thing is that this company has too many shareholders, and every shareholder wants to be king. Shareholder A tells you to do task A, while Shareholder B asks why you are doing task A and says you should be doing task B instead. Then, when you switch to task B, Shareholder A comes over and scolds you for not following Shareholder A's instructions.

Finally, don't waste your time joining this company—unless you are very brave and want to experience what hell is like.

You can tell from the experience below that there was nothing to be happy about.

The company environment was rather gloomy. There weren't many employees, and everyone was very quiet!

At the beginning, they had me fill out some forms. There were a lot of miscellaneous things to fill in, and afterward they gave me a file to memorize for a test.

Halfway through, they called me into a small room to start the interview.

The boss seemed pretty impressive~~ Their hair accessories market is focused on Europe~

After looking at my résumé and portfolio, he asked me to talk about my thoughts on my work, so I started confidently introducing my work.

Next came the time for him to share his thoughts about me...

He said I was very capable (I have six years of experience in graphic design), but that my abilities were of little use to them, and that I would be a zero at his company.

He said my personal style was too strong, my personality too distinctive, and my personal opinions too prominent—that I seemed overconfident and difficult to work with at the company... (I explained that people who work in design may be more likely to have their own ideas.)

He said that when you take a job, the company is giving you an opportunity to learn and even paying you, so I needed to change my mindset and be grateful; otherwise, it would be difficult to find a job later.

He said that hundreds of people graduate with design degrees every year. Although they might not be better than me now, my current experience was also accumulated through my previous companies.

He also explained the employee four-quadrant model to me:

Poor ability and poor attitude: a liability

Poor ability and good attitude: an employee

Good ability and poor attitude: a talented person

Good ability and good attitude: an asset

He said my abilities were very good~ and that I belonged in the “talented person” category~~ but he didn't want talented people; he wanted assets,

(but I honestly have no idea what I did that showed a poor attitude?? Black-person-confused question marks?)

At the end of the interview, I thanked him for his guidance. He told me, “I don't think you're the person we're looking for, but if we can't find anyone later, we'll still notify you for a second interview” (??)

This was truly the most speechless interview I've ever had. Why did I feel like I had been judged as completely worthless? I kept thinking back, wondering whether I had said something wrong that made him misunderstand me as having a poor attitude.

Still, I think it's probably for the best that I didn't get the job. If they would belittle an interviewee to this extent, I don't think I could be happy working there anyway~

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I strongly agree with the comments shared by the previous reviewers. This company is exactly as described; everyone in the entire company has problems. Anyone considering joining this company should take care of themselves.

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If you apply as a graphic artist or advertising design student, they make it sound good by saying you may travel abroad for work, but in reality they expect you to work yourself to death. The supervisor does not know art or editing, communication with upper management is seriously problematic, and they just keep holding meetings that waste time, while expecting you to do everything. You have to clock out first, then buy lunch for them during your lunch break, leaving almost no time for yourself to rest. Sometimes they even force you to work overtime on holidays. They have an auction website in partnership with a bank. After the advertising copy supervisor comes up with the copy, they keep changing it, while another supervisor asks you to do something else. If you are highly capable, you will simply have an endless amount of advertising work, as well as clip-card template design (they hired another designer to design the card template, but in practice there is only an AI file, and you are expected to produce the cards). After doing all this, you are also expected to run errands and provide personal services!

The salary is fairly negotiable, and there isn't much work to do—just image editing.

The interview lasted an hour, and basically I spent the whole time listening to the boss talk about how large and impressive the company was, especially in comparison with overseas vendors, and so on.

Once you start, you have to take a weekly English vocabulary test. If you don't pass, you can't leave work.

The company enforces an all-inclusive overtime system and completely disregards the law.

The office is very large, but there are very few people. When I asked where the others had gone, my supervisor only said they had been "sent to other locations to provide assistance," without explaining what other locations the company actually had. They also said that if I became proficient, they would consider assigning me to work elsewhere as well. (But I applied because commuting between the company and where I live is convenient—so that was a bit speechless.)

I was also asked that very day when I could start working, so I asked about the probationary period. Although I left after only a few days, the environment was too quiet. I don't know whether it was just the schedule for that month, but there appeared to be only three or four employees, and the duty roster assigned cleaning duties only to the female employees; the male employees had none at all.

The supervisor is very gentle with new employees but extremely harsh toward veteran employees when they turn around.

The computer equipment is terrible: it runs Windows XP, takes half an hour to boot, and Photoshop takes five seconds to complete a single step—even if you're just switching tools.

Yet with equipment this bad, you're still expected to produce one image per minute.

If you can't finish, you have to work overtime immediately, with no overtime pay and no scheduled days off.