廣錸儀器股份有限公司

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At first, I saw this job posting on 104 and decided to submit my résumé.

I remember receiving an interview invitation just a few days later. The location was in Fengyuan District, Taichung City.

The company is located along a rural road. If you are driving there, I would not recommend it, because the road is narrow and passing other vehicles is difficult.

After arriving at the company, HR first asked me to fill out some basic information on the first floor. After I finished, I went upstairs to the second floor for the interview.

At first, HR asked me to give a brief self-introduction. Later, a supervisor came over to interview me. (The conversation was pleasant throughout. We also discussed the company’s background and future vision. At the time, I genuinely felt that the company was sincerely interested in understanding job seekers.) The first day ended on a fairly pleasant note.

After the first interview ended, I received a call from Kuang-Lai at around 4 p.m. inviting me to a second interview the next day.

I wondered why it was happening so quickly and why they seemed so urgent.??? Based on my previous job-search and interview experience, positions that schedule a second interview for the very next day are usually either urgently hiring or I am a very good match for their requirements. I had no idea, but I still chose to attend the next day!

When I arrived at Kuang-Lai Instruments on the second day, I went upstairs to the second floor as before. A supervisor who looked like a manager came over to interview me. We simply asked and answered questions back and forth—the usual questions companies ask.

But we never discussed the salary or benefits. We never discussed the salary or benefits; we never discussed the salary or benefits. (This point is really important, so I’m saying it three times. During the first interview the previous day, neither HR nor the supervisor discussed salary or benefits either. But since it was only the first interview, I knew that some companies do not discuss these matters in the first round because they are still screening candidates. However, this was already the second interview, and we still did not discuss salary or benefits. I began to wonder what exactly they were hiding.??? Later, I asked directly: “What are the salary and benefits like?” The manager immediately said that HR would have to come over to explain this. At that point, I found it strange—extremely strange. I had never encountered a company like this before. Between yesterday and today, three supervisors had already taken turns interviewing me. Why did they keep asking me the same questions and talking about the company’s future development and vision? Was this just making grand promises? I didn’t know. But I believe every job seeker wants to know about the salary and benefits. What exactly were they being so vague about?

Sure enough, the last person to interview me was a woman. She was not the same HR representative from the previous day, so by this point, a total of four people had taken turns interviewing me. She started by asking me the same questions as well—the ones the previous three people had asked. I kept answering the same things over and over for four different people. By this point, I no longer wanted the job. I had never encountered an interview process like this; there was no interview procedure at all. If all four people were going to ask the same questions, why take turns doing it??? Normally, the first interview has one set of questions, and the second round has other questions to answer. The four interviewers at your company merely took turns asking the job seeker the same questions—what was the point??? And sure enough, the fourth person also did not tell me anything about the salary or benefits!

I couldn’t take it anymore, so I said directly: “Actually, two supervisors and one HR representative have already asked me these questions yesterday and today. Right now, I just want to know how much this job pays and what benefits your company offers.” She could see that I was becoming impatient and said: “We have to wait until the final evaluation before calling you. If we decide to hire you, then we will tell you how much the salary is.”

When I got home that day, I was completely dumbfounded. I was genuinely furious. It felt as if I had been deceived and played. Are there still interviews where the employer does not tell job seekers the salary? And this was after attending interviews for two days and being interviewed by four people in succession.

On the third day, they called to inform me that I had been hired and immediately asked whether I could start next Monday. When I heard that, I almost swore over the phone. I had written in my application that my earliest available start date was two weeks later and my latest was within a month, yet you called me and directly asked me to start next Monday.???

I immediately replied over the phone: “You still haven’t told me how much the salary is, and you’re directly asking me to start next Monday?” Only then did she finally blurt it out……

For those of you looking for jobs online, thank you for patiently reading this far. You can really look up Kuang-Lai Instruments on the reviews on the Tienyan job-search website and see what other people have said, because I felt that something was very wrong from the moment I interviewed with them……

The job posting I applied for on 104 listed the salary as 39,000. When they called to tell me I had been hired that day, they said they could only offer 38,000 (including a 2,000 perfect-attendance bonus), meaning the actual salary was 36,000. I asked, “But doesn’t the 104 posting say 39,000?” She said that an additional 1,000 could be added only after passing an evaluation…… In the end, I decisively turned down the offer.

Based on my past workplace experience, companies that are so vague from the interview stage and act as though you have to do whatever they say (I was only there for an interview and was not even an official employee yet) are very difficult to work for. Even if I had joined, I imagine it would have been hard to get things done.

One word of sincere advice: When your company interviews job seekers, don’t forget that the job seekers are interviewing you too~!

If everyone treated one another mutually, the world would be a much better place. I also wish those of you currently looking for work success in finding a job you truly like!