Jaytea

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How many rounds of interviews do sales people go through on average

I'm interviewing for a startup. It's decent, as they are going for their series A right now soon to be profitable profitable. What annoys me is that they had six rounds for an INTERN.

1. meet with a business development rep (culture etc.)

2. head of growth (technical problems/ ask me about my sales exp)

3. Cold call and email "test."

4. Meet the product operation manager (she asked me a bunch of product questions and completely flunked that, I'm interviewing for a sales position)

5. meet the CEO

6.Talk about pay

Is it just me, or is this just ridiculous? I felt like I just wasted all that time for no reason if they didn't accept me once again for an INTERN position.

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CuriousFox

WR Officer

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That's what I call a waste of your time.

Epad

Executive

Snr Business Development Executive

Just my opinion, but in this hiring climate, anything more than 3-4 (depending on level of course) is too much

Blue_Turtle

Opinionated

sdr

I’m doing 4 internally for a promo from SDR to AE and I already did all this months ago but there wasn’t room for me. Shouldn’t there be less rounds of interview for an internal promotion?

Epad

Executive

Snr Business Development Executive

I would think 1, max 2 would be more than enough for a promotion opp

Fenderbaum

Politicker

Retired Choirboy🪕

Six rounds for an intern? I would say that's ridiculous.

CuriousFox

WR Officer

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Lil bit

Gyro25

Notorious Answer

Account Executive

I had around 3-4, yeah as well, yeah.

Pachacuti

Politicker

They call me Daddy, Sales Daddy

Part of that interview process is to give you the experience of interviewing, which is something they don't teach in college. I'd call that a good educational experience.

punishedlad

Tycoon

Business Development Team Lead

6 rounds is absurd. Anything over 4, like others have said, is a waste of your time. Unless it's a dream position, I wouldn't put up with it.

HappyGilmore

Politicker

Account Executive

That's a lot of rounds and something I've experienced actually at a couple of companies. Most times I'd say its usually 3-4 rounds.

Gasty

Notable Contributor

War Room Community Manager

Good chance they're just extracting info / insights from you, for their own use.

saaskicker

Celebrated Contributor

Enterprise AE

1. recruiter screen
2. hiring manager
3. person on the team
4. back with the hiring manager most times with a panel of other managers
offer / no offer
you should figure out pay in the first 2 calls, if you take more calls and you haven't agreed upon a salary or even a range, you're wasting time and/or doing free consulting for them.

Jaytea

Catalyst

N/A

Told them it was 20-25/hr but idk what they are gonna give me

Kosta_Konfucius

Politicker

Sales Rep

This is intense for an internship. Probably shows they will be a lot of training if they have this many interviews.

DungeonsNDemos

Big Shot

Rolling 20's all day

3-5 is pretty average but 5 is where I top out.

Diablo

Politicker

Sr. AE

Not sure about the intern, I had max 3-4 till date.

valeriy

Member

Is that time wisely invested?

antiASKHOLE

Tycoon

Bravado's Resident Asshole

I have gone through 3 at most.

LittleDoesThings

Executive

Account Executive

My last job as a sales manager for a startup was 4 interviews long… for the fintech company I am with now, it was only 2 interviews.

JMSwiggidy

Politicker

Enterprise Account Executive

Yeah, that’s a little much lol.

CadenceCombat

Tycoon

Account Executive

The sky is the limit. I heard Shopify used to have as much as 8 round of interviews.

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How many rounds of interviews do sales people go through on average

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