I applied through a recruiter. The process took 6 weeks. I interviewed at Paychex in Oct 2011
Interview
Total waste of time for a crappy job. The salary is not that great, and they act like this is the best job ever. Make you jump through hoops, and do not reply to you in a timely manner. They will string you along for no reason, tell you they want you, then give no reason why they changed their minds.
I was first called by an outside recruiter about this position. She set up a phone interview with the District Sales Manager, one week later. The phone interview went well, but it took another two weeks to set up a face to face interview. I drove over 100 miles to meet for the face to face interview. I thought the interview went well, although the manager was a little odd. The recruiter kept telling me that I was the #1 candidate, and that the manager told her he was very interested. I did not hear back anything from for another week and a half. Finally, I get to set a second interview with another District Manager. I drove another 100 miles to meet the other District Manager. I thought the interview went well. I called the first manager and left a message to follow up the next day. 30 minutes later I get an email from the recruiter saying I was not a good fit. No explanation, no reason given, and the manager I had been speaking with for over a month did not even have the courtesy to call me personally.
3 different interviews with 3 different managers. Followed that with a job shadow to allow me to see a day in the field. Then an offer was made and I moved to the location I interviewed for
I applied through other source. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Paychex
Interview
Had an HR screening, then I had an interview with 2 Managers which went great, and a final round interview with the Senior District Sales Manager. I emailed the Senior Manager to schedule time for the final round but he liked to act like he was all busy and important, after about an hour of no response I sent him another email asking if he had a time in mind and responded within a minute. The Senior Manager had this inflated sense of worth that apparently he's too high up there to bother responding within an hour to an initial email if it's not convenient for him. Following the final interview, I received the standard rejection email and asked for feedback from the Senior Manager on what I could've done better. Never received a response; like I said before, his inflated sense of worth makes him think it's ok to not answer a basic request.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Walk me through your sales process at where you currently work
Focused on sales experience and willingness to aggressively encourage leads to sign up for their software. Questions about qualifying leads or questions about how their product was different were not well received
