Five month process with a referral already on the inside. Several red flags along the way, mostly with the coordinator sending weekend texts (from his IPad) to set up the interviews and then giving only three days to prepare a 20-30 minute slide presentation. Once giving the presentation being broken and immediately discarded for not knowing more about their brand of cloud sales. Sometimes being interviewed by the 25 year veteran of the company is a non-starter; just too set in his ways and not interested in putting time in to mentoring fantastic subordinates. In my opinion it is a company's responsibility to train their employees all about their product line so you are an effective sales engineer/person. This was even more of a surprise since I was told I would be judged by my presentation skills and ability to author the materials, not by the technical mistakes. To be fair I made a few, but was also told I would be "on-boarded for at least 6 to 8 months before I would be "certified" to present alone. I assume that time would be teaching me where I made the mistakes and how to properly represent the product. I'm upset and disappointed that I not only didn't get the job, but destroying how I look at the professionalism of the 2nd largest software company.

Telephone interview where the discussion was basically around my skillsand experience, my salary and benefits requirements and availability date. First face-to-face interview with the Regional Pre-Sales Manager and an HR Representative was a very formal and a little intimidating. Questions were about my knowledge of all areas of Human Capital Management which is my area of expertise. Second Interview - I had to deliver a presentation on an Overview of HCM followed by questions such as " why do you think you are the right person for this job"? Three months later I received an offer which I negotiated and accepted.