I passed the operations interview but was rejected. Do cross-border companies also discriminate against regions?

Operations personnel were denied employment due to regional discrimination?

In the company's recruitment process, there will inevitably be a certain degree of discrimination. For example, many companies will restrict academic qualifications and only recruit graduates from 985 and 211, or further raise the threshold to postgraduate graduates.

Although this behavior is considered discriminatory to job seekers who graduated from non-key universities, after all, in a workplace where the fittest survive, most people can still accept this requirement. However, the requirements of some companies are obviously hard to understand.

In today's workplace, many job seekers have been treated unfairly due to gender, marital status, illness, etc., and there has even been regional discrimination!

Recently, a job seeker reported that he encountered "regional discrimination" when interviewing at a cross-border company .

It is understood that the job seeker interviewed a cross-border e-commerce company in Shenzhen with more than 50 employees. After a simple interview process, he successfully passed the interview. But what he didn't expect was that the message sent by the HR the next day made the job seeker confused.

The chat records show that the HR said that after communicating with the person in charge of the company, the leader believed that the job applicant’s registered residence in Shanwei also belonged to the Chaoshan area, so it was decided not to admit him.

Hearing this result, the job seeker was obviously a little bit unacceptable, so he asked the HR why people from Chaoshan area were not recruited? Judging from the other party’s answer, it was still caused by the stereotype of Chaoshan people.

It turned out that the other party believed that Chaoshan people had a "tradition" of entrepreneurship , so after learning operational skills in the company, they might go out and start their own business, thus becoming potential competitors of the company.

"Not all Chaoshan people want to start a business. Aren't there Chaoshan people who want to work honestly?" the interviewer sighed helplessly.

Afterwards, he posted his experience online, and unexpectedly it quickly aroused huge heated discussion.

"To put it bluntly, they like to steal skills from masters, and then run away after learning. Many people are like this. I have heard of many of them. I once had a client who was cheated by Chaoshan."

"In fact, we can't generalize. To put it bluntly, there are such people in every region, and it is wrong to discriminate against a certain region for such a reason."

Although netizens have different opinions on this matter, it is undeniable that many Chaoshan people are indeed good at starting a business and are no less capable in the field of cross-border e-commerce.

Data shows that in 2023, Chaozhou City's cross-border e-commerce imports and exports reached 1.68 billion yuan, ranking among the top ten in the province at an acceleration rate, an increase of 950% year-on-year, ranking first in the province.

Seeing that Chaoshan people have such strong entrepreneurial ability, it is no wonder that some companies are afraid that Chaoshan people will take away their jobs. But in the final analysis, this situation is just an isolated case after all, and I believe that most cross-border companies will still treat them equally.

Weird things encountered in cross-border recruitment

In the first half of this year, a Temu operator encountered a situation that left him speechless when he changed jobs.

According to this operator, he wanted to try his luck in changing jobs after the New Year to see if he could get a salary increase. However, after he went to a company for an interview, the other party took out a set of forms and asked him to fill in. After filling them out for more than half an hour, he suddenly found that there was a whole set of questions to do behind the forms.

After seeing this, the operator decisively ran away and said that he didn't understand what the point of doing such questions for a fully managed operation position in Temu was, and it was useless except wasting his job search time.

Coincidentally, an Amazon operation also encountered "test paper bombing" during the interview.

Since when, written tests have become a necessary process for many cross-border companies when recruiting. During this process, written tests have gradually evolved from simple operational knowledge tests to complex tests that include various logic questions and even personality tests.

“I know the cross-border circle is very competitive, but I didn’t expect Amazon’s operations to be so competitive now!”

Some time ago, an Amazon operator spent two hours "furiously" doing interview questions, which became a hot topic in the cross-border circle. According to an Amazon operator, he was given a stack of test questions during the interview. He thought they were just some routine basic operation knowledge questions, but when he took a closer look, he was dumbfounded. These questions were not only related to operations, but also some logical reasoning questions that you would only encounter when taking civil service exams. There were even MBTI personality test questions.

The operator roughly estimated that if he wanted to finish the written test seriously, it might take at least one hour, and if he wrote slowly, it might even take two hours. Thinking of this, the operator decisively made an excuse to leave .

In the recruitment process of cross-border companies, there are indeed countless strange events, and even in the online communication stage, it can be eye-opening.

Some netizens said that they did not even enter the interview stage. They were bombarded by HR during the chat stage of the recruitment software, and the questions asked were very specific: 1. Are you familiar with the A9 algorithm? Can you briefly describe it? 2. Is your previous work experience white hat? If you want to evaluate, how to find evaluation resources? 3. What category do you do? What are the product orders, natural conversion rate, advertising exposure, clicks and other data? 4. What are the total sales, total gross profit and profit margin? 5. Do you have experience in promoting hot products? If so, how many hot products have you promoted?

After asking these questions, the other party added, please reply to the above questions, and the company will arrange an interview after your reply.

It can be said that it is possible to encounter all kinds of weird situations in an interview, so the majority of operations personnel need to keep their eyes open when looking for a job, and get out of unreasonable questions as soon as possible to avoid "getting deeper and deeper."

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