I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at ADP (Pleasanton, CA) in Sep 2012
Interview
The interview process was pretty straight forward. Recruiter called, interviewed and then setup up the 2nd interview one week later.
All of my life, I have excelled at interviews. But this time, I decided to be honest and forthright about my current job culture and hardships with the interviewer. BIG mistake. Current job's sales team is in shambles. This month we have (again) 3/4 of the team not making quota. I knew there was trouble my first week when I was hired after everyone was worried about the state of the sales department. I'm wise enough to know that they didn't know what they are doing (the sales leadership) and that they keep setting up us for failure. I was extremely disappointed at this fact and began looking for a job the next month.
Fast forward five months and it's even worse. They've fired two people, demoted some of our upper management and are restructuring everything. The VP of Sales asked me why I am leaving. I told him the truth about what they expect of us, why we are not making our quota and that what I want is to put my hard work (and I am a workaholic) towards a position that I can be proud of, that rewards me and where I can progress. I may have come off a tad bit exasperated but that's because I am frustrated with organizations promising salaries they cannot provide. I absolutely know ADP is different.
Too bad. I am so very much the employee that they are looking for: determined, extremely team-oriented, open-minded to coaching and a great personality to boot. I only want to learn best practices, apply them and succeed.
This is undoubtedly ADP's loss.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
None. I was completely open, honest and direct so I wasn't "thrown" by any questions. In the future, I will be more reserved since being absolutely honest did not work with ADP. One question that I remember was, " What is your perfect job?"
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at ADP (Charlotte, NC) in Mar 2011
Interview
Basic series of interviews with sales management and HR. These are educated professionals who are hired into one department and pretty much stay there. I never witnessed a promotion to a different division. And I saw only one sales rep promoted, but he was the son of one of the managers! It's an intense sales production work environment. They have started to raise salaries when they fell behind the competition. Bottom line - if you work 50 hours a week and like to cold call and pressure prospects in sales presentations for the close, this is probably a good place for you.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
If you were given an elephant, what would you do with it?