I applied online. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Accelerated Marketing Solutions (Deer Park, NY) in Oct 2014
Interview
You apply online to a vaguely described marketing job. They call you immediately the next morning. If you don't answer the first time, they email and call you two more times within an hour or two saying this is your final chance. I called back about 2 hours after they had called me and they scheduled me for an interview the following day. I got into the office and heard the secretaries non-stop calling giving the same exact message I had received. I filled out a form which essentially was my resume even though I was told to bring that. Then a shaky 20 something gave me a rushed interview, where he asked vague questions and gave vague answers to any questions I had.
Basically what they told me was that they were looking for someone who could take up a manager/supervisor position after they were trained. However when I asked how long training was they told me training isn't long but it would be about 3 or 4 months before I became a supervisor, I would have to start on the street team representing Verizon FIOs (in other words, become a door to door cable salesman). They promise a quick promotion and great pay but its only commission for those first 3 months (if those 3 months are actually only 3 months, I will never know but I highly doubt it).
Since I have done 2 other interviews with companies just like this, I have gathered that this is what is going on:
Verizon FIOs has hired every big and small marketing firm on Long Island to represent it by sending out door to door salesmen. The marketing firms in turn post vague job posts on Craigslist and other job listing sites saying they're looking to fill entry level marketing positions and they can teach you everything when in reality if it was a real marketing job, they would only be hiring marketing or business graduates. These posts are specifically meant for desperate graduates from the social sciences (Psychology, Sociology, Criminology, Archaeology, etc) who haven't be able to either find good paying jobs in their given fields right out of college or have decided they rather do something with marketing and business which seems like a sensible career path considering their background in statistics and research analysis.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
All questions were extremely easy and I answered them pretty stupidly just to see how far I could push it. I was offered the second interview without hesitation.
I applied online. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Accelerated Marketing Solutions (Deer Park, NY) in Sept 2014
Interview
As was posted previously, the interviewing process was chaotic with loud noise thumping from an interior room into the waiting and interviewing room. I filled out a simple form which was a copy of my resume, which I was asked to bring along. When I was called into a room for what I thought was an interview I reiterated that I was not a salesperson and did not want a sales position. I was asked no personal questions and was in the room for less than 5 minutes. I was assured by the person who set up the interview time on the phone that I was not interviewing for a sales position and she assured me that there were other positions to fill besides sales. I should have been firm about what I was interviewing for rather than waste time driving there and back. The whole experience was very shady and went according to what was previously posted.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
None - I was told about other positions but never asked which one I'd like to interview for.
I applied online. The process took 3 days. I interviewed at Accelerated Marketing Solutions (Deer Park, NY) in Jun 2014
Interview
Went in for an interview and had to wait about an hour due to the extensive amount of people waiting. After meeting with the manager, he was very nice and I was called back for a second interview. At that interview, I went around with a mentor to see what the job was like (door to door marketing) and then met with another very nice manager.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What organic training is. They basically just wanted us to know that they train their people from the bottom up - all people must start at bottom no matter what their experience (which kind of stinks)