I interviewed in Atlanta - have to say I was not impressed with how horribly run the interview process was - it was joke. They had the "welcome" table on the 15th floor - but no signs or info anywhere that is was there. When I asked the hotel concierge he gave me 3 different floors to check out. My welcome packet from the recruiter simply said when you arrive to go to the welcome table. Bad first impression. When I checked in I was told that only 1 of the 3 scheduled RDs was actually there and most people would not be doing 2nd interviews that day. When I scheduled my flight I was told that we would be doing 2 interviews with the 2nd being at 8:00pm. So they booked my flight home for 9:45pm - meaning a VERY long day of just sitting in a hotel. The welcome room was nice with snacks and drinks. The interview itself was a typical STAR interview - the questions they asked were pretty standard situations. However, once you finished your interview you were directed to the hotel lobby to wait on a call telling you could leave or you were one of the few who would be giving a 2nd interview that day. I waited 3hrs and 45 mins for my call. Every time I checked in with the Inventiv lady running the show she apologized and said the DM I interviewed with was not responding to her texts. Finally she called and said I could leave, that the territory I interviewed for would not be doing RD interviews that day. The only good part of the day was i was able to get on a standby flight and get home before 1am. However, if I hadn't just sat in the lobby all day I could have made it back much earlier. When I sent the DM a thank you letter I was told selections would be made by Wed and we would be notified. When I reached out to the recruiter on Thur after hearing nothing I was informed notifications would be coming Friday. And Monday I still had not heard anything so I reached back out to hiring Manager - he was having a hard time making up his mind and promised to get back to me. I finally received notification late Tue afternoon that I was the 2nd choice. I still haven't heard anything from the recruiter. In all honesty, after talking to a few other reps and reading more about Evo I am happy not to have been chosen. When I applied the recruiter really talked up the company and product. What an exciting new class of drug - blah, blah, blah. However, now I'm pretty sure this is going to be a very short contract, certainly not the 5 years I was told. Evo is not going to sell to primary care and will be very hard to sell to cardiologist. It is priced out of the market - it will have no managed care coverage and has competition from very effective, long proven products at much more realistic prices. Kinda feeling like I dodged a bullet on this one! All the same I am not impressed with how unprofessional Inventiv handled the process or that the recruiter still has not sent my rejection letter. And spending time in the lobby listening to so many of the other candidates it was apparent about 50% were bottom feeders. If the company was smart they would plant someone to pretend to be a candidate and take notes on what the real candidates say and how they act.
Good luck to those chosen - and to the rest be glad and keep looking
