The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Paychex in Apr 2012
Interview
The interview at paychex has been one of the better interviews I've been it. The people are nice and easy to talk to, yet they challenge you and ask you thought provoking questions. One question I was asked in this process that I hadn't seen anywhere was "tell us about your high school experience?" a little unexpected, however I was able to quickly gather my experiences and relay them to the interviewers.
The second interview was with someone at the regional office. Again nice people. With the regional rep. I was simply asked to give her my life story for as long as I could go. This was not difficult.
I ended up not getting the position because they wanted someone with prior B2B sales experience, which I did not have. Paychex seems like a great company to work for and the kind of environment I would like to be a part of.
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