Had a beer with the hiring manager at a local restaurant during lunch. He asked about my previous experience. After that he sent the paperwork to HR. It was a very strange experience.

This was by far the worst interview experience I’ve gone through. I was doing just fine at my present job when a 3rd party recruiter contacted me about a position here in Memphis. I was initially interested because of the opportunity to move from inside to outside sales. Plus the location is very close to where i live. But the length of the process, number of steps, and total lack of communication was disheartening. First there was 2 phone interviews with the recruiter. After he felt i was a good candidate, there was a 3rd phone interview with their internal HR person. She seemed impressed and set up a in person interview with the hiring manager. When i arrived, he wasn’t ready to interview me because he was on a conference call. So he sent one of his reps to talk to me for 20-30 mins. Then he came and gave me what felt like a half cocked interview. At the end he told me the next step would be a ride along type day with one of his reps. I was fine with this because i thought it would be the final step before an offer. Mind your, i was using PTO from my present job to complete all these interviews. The ride along went great and i was becoming more enthused about the company. That’s when they told me i would need to do another interview. It was going to be a panel interview. In my mind, it seemed excessive, but at this point i was invested. So i took off from work again to do what would turn out to be my 6th interview. By this time, the process had gone from mid November to early January. I thought the interview went well. I got positive feedback from the third party recruiter. I was told i would hear something soon. A week passed with no word. And then two weeks. Finally i reached out for the second time via email. That’s when the third party recruiter called to tell me they were going in another direction. By this time, i was so frustrated with the process that i wasn’t even disappointed with the outcome. I’m not sure where, but there are clearly some wires crossed with this company. My time was not respected at all. Very unprofessional.