好住科技股份有限公司

The office is quite nice, and the HR staff are also very polite.

The interview starts with a personality test. After completing it, there is a professional written exam. The written exam questions (C language) are fairly easy and are written in Chinese.

There are around nine or ten questions, and you are given 30 minutes to complete them. After the exam, two interviewers come in and start by asking some basic questions, mostly things like why you wanted to choose this position.

One of them, a somewhat overweight senior interviewer, kept criticizing your views about startups (for example, an energetic atmosphere), which made the interview feel extremely oppressive. He kept comparing large companies with startups, saying that startups would eventually grow into large companies and using that to rationalize a dull, lifeless atmosphere. (Am I interviewing with a large company or a startup?)

The other interviewer, who had very thin eyebrows, kept asking questions unrelated to the position. (At one point, I wondered whether I was actually interviewing for an IoT position.)

Overall, it was an interview designed to make you feel extremely pressured. Even if I had been hired, I would not have gone. Fortunately, I was not hired.

Pros

1. The office environment looks pretty good (it has that distinctive smell of new renovations and new furniture XD)

2. HR will keep worrying that you haven't had enough water to drink or that you want to go to the bathroom but don't dare say so XD

1. The company is located in Neihu, so taking the bus or having your own transportation would be more convenient.

(It feels like going to work on rainy days would be really troublesome... I'm just lazy XD)

2. After you complete the personality test, HR will have a conversation with you about some aspects of the company culture. The sexual harassment incidents mentioned online really did happen.

3. Company overtime can only be exchanged for compensatory leave and cannot be paid out in cash. If you don't use it all this year, you can continue using it next year, so it's something you can see but not enjoy. Treat overtime as doing good deeds.

4. The interviewer was from product development, but I wasn't applying for a product development position... During the interview, you could tell that they had very little respect for the skills, experience, and knowledge of people such as R&D and QA, acting as if senior PMs were the most capable.

So if you want to join this company, I recommend applying for a PM position instead; it would probably be better.

5. The company feels like it is still being renovated... It was quite scary when I first went there, especially when taking the elevator. I thought I was in some kind of horror movie = =

(I am personally rather timid, so this is purely a subjective personal issue. You may or may not take it into consideration.)

6. There is only one person on my work team. If I join, there will be two people, but it seems that when someone resigns, they have to find someone from the same department. I'm afraid that as soon as I join, the other person will happily tell me that they can finally escape = =

7. All the rumors online are true. Please think carefully before joining. Thank you.

1. The company's hardware looks pretty good (although I only went into the meeting room after getting off the elevator on the third floor, so I didn't see the inside of the office).

2. The HR was fairly polite.

1. The company is a bit far away in Neihu, though that depends on the individual.

2. After completing the relevant personality and logic tests, the HR came in first and asked a bunch of questions. The HR said that a manager would be invited next. I then spent quite some time waiting for the manager to come interview me, but in the end, the manager didn't show up—it was the HR again. The HR tactfully said that she had discussed it with the manager, and the simple result was that, based on the outcome of my interview with the HR, the manager felt I wasn't the person she was looking for, so she asked the HR to come and send me away. The manager didn't even come out to have a conversation. This was an extremely rude interview attitude. Traveling all the way to Neihu also took quite a lot of my time, yet the manager wasn't even willing to come out and spend five minutes rejecting me. To be honest, although the company's parent company is a property developer, the products of its invested subsidiaries aren't exactly brands with much name recognition either. I don't know what the manager is acting so arrogant about. Also, hadn't the manager seen my résumé before the interview? If this was how it was going to be, couldn't the HR have simply called me first to talk? Why make a job candidate come all the way there?

3. Anyway, in the end, I felt that since the manager had this kind of attitude, it's probably for the best that I didn't get the job. Working together might have been difficult anyway. It really is, as people say, an extremely problematic company.

4. With this kind of attitude, I think it will be very difficult for the products to succeed in the future.

None

Two people came in at the beginning, and both of them wore sour expressions from start to finish, as if I owed them money. When I shared my work experience, they barely listened and spent most of the time using their own computers. Their clothes were shabby and they paid no attention to their appearance. Having seen so many companies, this was by far the sloppiest one, with a poor attitude. You should know that while you are interviewing candidates, the candidates are also observing what your company is like. This company displayed the arrogant attitude of the employer to the fullest. The job posting said that the level of proficiency was not restricted, which was a lie. If you are not sufficiently skilled, there is no need to waste your time applying. Prepare yourself better before trying again.

The capsule coffee is pretty good

Flexible holidays without requiring make-up workdays

No American-style approach

The young team has a good work atmosphere—which basically means they prefer inexperienced newcomers, because newcomers don't dare to ask for what they want

Managers expect you to continue sitting at your desk pretending to be busy after working hours

People with ideas or strong opinions are advised not to apply

They only want to hear the answers they already have in mind

Overtime is compensated only with time off, not overtime pay—and you might not even get the compensatory leave

There is coffee

Although there is coffee, it is only capsule coffee. The benefits listed on 104 say “lectures held irregularly,” but not a single one has been held to date. And there’s more… “Free snacks and beverages provided” happened only once, during the Ghost Festival; after that, they stopped providing them. On the Lantern Festival, the company asked whether we wanted to order tangyuan. We had already filled out the order forms, but then they said we had to pay for them ourselves… So… does this count as a “little afternoon-tea perk” or “free snacks and beverages provided”? “Monthly group dining activities” are also not held every month, and of course there is no “annual employee trip” either.

The interview process is very much like that of a large corporation: you have to complete a psychological assessment and a programming test.

The waiting time was lengthy, the process was not very professional, the company atmosphere was quiet, and it lacked the energy of a startup.