Meeting with two employees at their Tokyo office. First impressions were very negative, the team lead I was meeting was slouched against a wall in casual dress when I met him, offered no greeting and only respond to my greeting after blankly staring for a long time. The guy had zero communication skills and was generally offensive. From the very first moment I lost all interest in the position but continued anyway for the experience of it.
When I posed some questions about the internal IT infrastructure the interviewer got very defensive. I was told that they support a few hundred staff internally and their internal software has performance issues in dealing with the demands of the general use. I was asked why their internal websites running on dedicated servers on their internal network had performance issues and the question was simply met with an insult and no answer other than to say that large companies have slow systems which isn't any sort of answer or excuse. Web Servers can handle thousands of requests per second, yet they struggle with only a max of 5 per second (say 300 staff making an average of 1 request per minute)?.. Anyone should question that, you'd have to work hard to make software that slow.
I was also told very firmly that "everything we do is for the customer", yet none of their websites work on mobile. Do their customers like having to zoom in to use their sites?... Do they like having to download more data than necessary?
In future don't lie to your candidates Amway, even if they decide to take the job they will soon be disillusioned and you will be yet again searching for new employees.
