I was contacted by the hiring manager not a recruiter to start the process. The hiring manager gave me "homework" before proceeding to the interview. I was to go to a University and ask professors a couple of questions. I understood the purpose of this project and spent the time doing the "homework". The hiring manager invited me to a face to face interview. The first hour was with the Hiring Manager and the second hour was with two colleagues. The colleagues were coming back to Wiley after leaving the company many years ago. That seemed positive that after leaving they would want to come back. The hardest part of the interview was keeping the attention of the two colleagues. They seemed more interested in chatting with each other and would go on tangents. I felt I was in the middle of these two people reconnecting versus being on the interview. When I was leaving the hiring manager told me I was a top candidate but the other person I was up against an internal hire. I heard nothing after that from the hiring manager or anyone in the company. I spent a good amount of time in the college campus, writing a summary of my findings, attending the interviews and you would think a call or email that they went a different direction would have been given. If they were going to go with an internal hire do not post the job externally. Over 8 hours were spent on doing the homework and interviews to not receive a call or email was extremely unprofessional.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Basic questions about building relationships and sales. Nothing too difficult.
Easy, and no questions about day-to-day sales practice or experience. Poor interviewing led to assumptions on both sides, resulting in a poor hiring fit. There was some bait and switch around how the role would work as well.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Tell me about a deal you closed that you're proud of.
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Wiley
Interview
Call with a recruiter who could not be less interested in speaking, they were almost robotic and just ran through my resume line by line instead of getting to know me as a person and discuss my qualifications in more detail. After they said they would follow up, I got an automated email rejecting my application the next day. Really impersonal and disappointing.
straightforward interview and only had to go through 2 rounds. The internal culture only allows for recommendations from specific employees. Also the HR department is super unorganized I showed up for my interview and was almost late because security couldn’t clear me to enter (HR wasn’t even aware I was there for an interview)