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3.5ish hour in-person interview/presentation??

Hey everyone. Today I was invited to a final stage interview in office. The first hour is interviewing with two senior managers. The second hour is interviewing with two VPs. The last 30-45 minutes I have to present anything I would like to 8 to 10 people with a Q&A session afterward to see my presentation ability.  Is this normal? This seems like a lot especially after 3 rounds via phone/teams already.
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coletrain
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Entirely unnecessary for a BDR titled role. Sounds like your function is prospect and you wouldn't close anything due to lack of PMF.

NOPE
TennisandSales
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Head Of Sales
WOW that sounds intense! the idea of doing a number of interviews in a row is not crazy. but each interview being 60 minutes seems excessive. Also, doing a presentation, not crazy. But to 8-10 ppl??? thats crazy haha.
HappyGilmore
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I’ve only had a similar format of this presentation once in my job search and it felt a bit aggressive IMO
RUReady
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Run
Buckeye40
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Lol
Diablo
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What role and company size is this? AE? I never had such an intensive one but I work for a small company.
Buckeye40
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The title is BDR. However, the pay and responsibility description seems to align more stereotypically with an AE or territory sales manager. Roughly 150 employees total. 5 person sales team.
TechSalesQueen
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Red flag to me. Inexperienced leadership if nothing else. Unless they’re paying you 4x what you’d low key accept id spend the time finding a company with their shit together
SirAlex
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I believe AWS has a similar process. I think it’s called the loop? You end up spending 5-6 hours with multiple teams, all while incorporating their dumb 14 leadership principles into your answers for every question/scenario they ask you about.
CuriousFox
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Eww no
CadenceCombat
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Ridiculous
Pachacuti
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They call me Daddy, Sales Daddy
Only 3.5 hours? Must be for a junior role. 😉😉

Wait till you get to spend a full day with them and after 3 hours you start answering the same questions all day long.
ZVRK
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Enterprise Account Executive
This looks insane. Presenting in front of 8-10 people? How does that help them figure out if you`re a good fit.. seems super odd and probably a trailer for a bad movie..
Buckeye40
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That was my thought..they also asked me to come in Jan 4. So I would need to ask for a PTO day the first week after the holidays on a Wednesday and prepare a presentation over the holiday break. Idk. Seems worse the more I think about it haha
Buckeye40
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Thanks for the help. For those curious I declined.

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