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      Inside Sales Engineer Interview

      Mar 19, 2009
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      Exton, PA
      No offer
      Neutral experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at ifm efector (Exton, PA) in Jul 2008

      Interview

      Extremely rigid. I don't think I would put in that much time and effort for any potential interviewer again. Spent a lot of time on online skills/personality tests. Position is still open, 9 months later, incredibly. I would surmise they are a very rigid and difficult employer. The position was ideally suited to a partial or full telecommute--but none of the existing SE's are allowed to do that nor was it mentioned as an eventual option during the interviewing process. I did not apply, my resume was picked off of Monster by the in house recruiter. I know that I did not do that well during the in person interview as I was getting to be very turned off by the whole process at that point. The hiring manager in particular, did not seem like someone I would want to work with or for.

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      Question 1

      Many "behavioural" questions, asking me to describe an event in the past when.....(insert various scenarios-- a client was mad at you, someone did something illegal at a previous job--some of these things never happened to me making it difficult to answer. ) They also asked the same questions repeatedly in slightly varied ways to see if you were consistent in your answers I suppose. Overall--exhausting.
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