Chapter Forty-Eight: A Glimpse of the Inside of the Glossy Foreign Capital
On the weekend, Maino went to the foreign-funded company for an interview.
The company's 36-story office building, the faΓ§ade is covered by special glass, is the most shining landmark building in Fengxia City, and the roof stands with the company's highly recognizable LOGO. At night, the light of the building is embossed and painted, and the LOGO is dazzling and colorful, which is very eye-catching.
This well-known company also imitated the interview method of one of the world's top companies, with nine colleagues conducting one-on-one interviews with interviewees. These 9 colleagues are either from the demand department of the recruitment position, or from the upstream and downstream departments of the recruitment position. This interview method is said to be able to screen out the best candidates for teamwork.
The first interviewer Ma Yinuo met was Miao Xiaoqian, a small leader in the legal department. She is from other provinces, but also in the province of the university, I don't know why I came to Fengxia City when I work, I stayed for 18 years, and there was no hope of moving up many times, and she has been in the company's grassroots manager position.
Miao Xiaoqian politely looked expressionless, sat down opposite Ma Yinuo, opened a blue folder, and said to the documents inside, "Please introduce yourself." β
After several interviews, Ma Yinuo has answered such questions with ease, giving his name, graduation school, bar test scores, English proficiency and brief experience.
Miao Xiaoqian looked at her, looked at the documents in her hand, and asked, "What are your hobbies?" β
After Ma Yinuo finished reading and playing badminton, she continued to ask the document in her hand as usual: "What are your advantages and disadvantages?" β
Ma Yinuo understood that what she was holding in her hand was a list of questions, which were commonly used in interviews, and she actually needed to ask them in turn against the manuscript.
It's the first time I've seen an interviewer so focused on a list rather than the interviewee itself.
This is understandable, after all, the person on the other side is not a human resources specialist, and he is not as handy about interview questions as other interviewers.
However, one of her actions made Ma Yinuo feel a little uncomfortable. Miao Xiaoqian looked directly at herself when she watched Ma Yinuo answer the question, and subconsciously took out a blank piece of paper and stamped it on the document to prevent Ma Yinuo from seeing her list of questions.
This action may be reasonable, but her next action has already made Ma Yinuo a little reluctant to continue this interview.
When Miao Xiaoqian wanted to ask another question, she only lifted a small corner of the white paper, raised her eyes to confirm it, and made sure that she couldn't see what she saw from Ma Yinuo's angle, so she struggled to find the next question in the gap of the white paper.
Blatantly distrustful, unabashedly thinking of people in the worst ways.
Even if you are really afraid that the interviewer will peek at the questions, you only need to stand up to the folder and read the questions against the list, and it will have its own anti-peeping effect quietly. It's rare to be as sneaky as her, and it's almost the same as using your body movements to tell someone that I'm guarding against you.
What's more, such questions are all very common interview questions, and there is no standard answer. Ma Yinuo really couldn't figure out what her suspicion and defense were for, which was incredible. Thinking that the person who reported to him in the future was the opposite person, Ma Yinuo was really reluctant.
Ma Yinuo wondered, could this be a stressful interview? Interviews that challenge tolerance? Maybe, anyway, it's just the beginning, and there are 8 interviewers to meet later, so you can't make up your mind so early.
In fact, there is no pressure to interview, this manager Miao Xiaoqian has always acted in this style, she doesn't trust anyone, and she doesn't disdain others to evaluate her for not trusting people.
The second interviewer was a Mexican.
The headquarters of foreign-funded enterprises in the home country believes that each department must have a foreign manager, so that the foreign-funded company will not be controlled by Chinese of the host country. However, this part of the legal business is special, and in the home country of a foreign-funded company, I couldn't find a suitable person to undertake it, so I recruited such a Mexican national from all over the world.
It is a general rule for foreign-funded enterprises that the salary of foreign personnel is three times that of Chinese personnel at the same level. In some industries, the same number of wages is adopted, but the difference is that Chinese employees are settled in RMB, while foreign employees are settled in US dollars, and an exchange rate formula is six or seven times the difference. Some industries even adopt the practice of directly removing a zero from the salary of foreign employees and calculating the wages of Chinese employees, that is, foreign employees can get ten times the income of Chinese employees for the same work.
Obviously, the Mexican manager, although the company he works for is not owned by a domestic company, has coincidentally become a member of this high-income group, and the happiness index is very high, and he has always been happy since he came in from outside the conference room.
The interview process between him and Ma Yino started in a relaxed chatting atmosphere, and although the Mexican manager spoke stiff English, he also laughed and laughed.
At the end of the interview, he enthusiastically stretched out his hand to shake hands with Ma Yinuo and said, "I am personally very satisfied with you, if the next interview goes well, I will be your boss!" β
He did not use the "welcome to join us" that Chinese would normally say on this occasion, but "I will be your boss" to define Ma Yinuo's entry.
The Mexican manager said this in a particularly happy and celebratory tone, saying the word "Boss" extremely naturally, and Maino was a little uncomfortable. In China, claiming to be someone else's boss means exploitation and control, as if it would be more appropriate for the boss to emphasize his role when employees disobey the arrangement.
Ma Yinuo thought that it should be cultural differences, and he was just saying this from the perspective of reporting relationships.
The third interviewer is a colleague at the same level in the recruitment position, which is the kind of white-collar image of foreign companies that often appears in film and television dramas, with a capable little suit, delicate short hair, a silver-gray laptop in his right hand, and a cup of coffee in his left hand.
She sat opposite Ma Yinuo, opened the notebook, and said, "Your name is Ma Yinuo, I'll mark you on the system as passed." If others have given it to you, we will be colleagues in the future, and I will not see you anymore, I have a material on hand to change it in a hurry, and I will use it for a meeting in a while. You're at your own convenience, I'll stay here for 20 minutes and leave. β
Ma Yinuo couldn't laugh or cry. It seems that the interview task assigned by the company is also quite burdensome to the employees, this backbone does not know how many prospective colleagues from the upstream and downstream and left and right have been interviewed, and they have simply been forgotten, in fact, in the final analysis, it is still the leader to choose people.
Seeing that she is still so busy on the weekend, it is obvious that these leaders and employees who are interviewers today are not just here for interviews. I don't know if this company is a "996 work system" or a "007" work system, Ma Yinuo is not good to disturb her to inquire about the company's situation, just search for Mexican business etiquette and customs on her mobile phone, and get along with her quietly.
When the time came, the elite white-collar workers did not drag their feet, smiled politely at Ma Yinuo, and rushed to the next conference room.
The fourth interviewer, and the last interviewer of the morning, was a middle-aged man at least 1.9 meters tall, with slightly white curls and elegant gold-rimmed glasses.
He picked up Ma Yinuo's resume, his eyes lit up, and he said, "Yo! Hello alumni! Our law school? β