The actual interview went fine. Good back and forth communication. Really it felt just like a conversation between new friends. The negative aspect comes from the fact that I was interviewed for a position different than what I applied for and actually wanted. This was discovered at the end of the interview when indisclosed that I was not interested in a management role. The interviewer asked why I applied for one then? We went our separate ways but that left a bad taste in my mouth.
I applied online. I interviewed at ADP in Mar 2017
Interview
The interview process started with a recruiter call. Then it moved to a face-to-face with a VP a week later. That went very well, and two weeks later, I was moved to another face-to-face with a group of leadership/management and asked to create a 20 minute power-point presentation for a mock-sales presentation to a prospective client. I did extremely well on this (As it is what I've spent the last 10 years doing professionally) and the feedback I received was basically "If it were up to us, I'd hire you right here and now and have you working today!" I felt fantastic to hear such positive feedback---but then --- After another 2 weeks of COMPLETE SILENCE---I was asked to do a ride-along with an employee to basically give me a better idea of the position. It was as if it was my turn to decide if the position was something I would be interested in. Why do this part, if you don't want to hire the candidate? Seems like it would be a massive waste of everyone's time. The person I spoke with said "If you've gotten this far, you're basically hired." ---well, a week after that I get an email saying they want to have one more phone call with me. 4 days later I get another phone call asking if i'm still interested (Making me feel like they offered the job to someone, or several others, and they declined, and I became "the back-up" plan dangling on a thread) ---I express my interest still, they ask more interview questions then say "Great we'll have an answer for you most likely tomorrow"----a full week passes, and then I get the generic email "Thanks for your time blah blah"--
the interview process was 2 months long. I was basically told I pretty much had the job near the end----until I received the generic copy-paste rejection email. Communication through this process was perhaps the worst level of professionalism i'd ever seen. A final-level candidate shouldn't have to reach out to you to ask for information because weeks have gone by with no information (Despite promising to provide information). A tremendous waste of my time a resources. It's unfortunately, but ADP hasn't impressed me as offering strong professional standards in their recruiting process.
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Standard process. Phone Screening followed by two interviews. The first interview is a face to face with a manager, and attempts to go through your information and background. The final interview is an entire day in the office, and then in the field, with the interview and mock sales meeting at the end.