How immature and classless can you people get? Reading these posts are pathetic. Sounds like a lot of short dick men on this site. Why don't you all do the world a favor and not post anymore? These types of messages are complete trash and useless. Also, drop the "Y'all" as its extremely annoying and childish. On second thought, please save it when you interview so the hiring manager knows you are one of the idiots that post this trash.
Bottom line is this. Of course Genentech will select some strong internal candidates but they will take a good amount of external strong candidates as well. This is a fact. The company isn't stupid and they want extremely successful and talented sales people with proven successful track records that work well with others. They want a strong launch and want the best people for the job. This isn't rocket science.
To the well-intentioned, normal and sane people out there:
If you get the call to move forward, you will have a good chance to get the opportunity. They are looking at BOTH internal and external candidates. You are not a seat filler. The company isn't going to invest time, airline tickets and other expenses just to bring you out. There will be two rounds of panel interviews about 45 minutes each. As most know by now, interviewing will start next week and will conclude in the final week of May. Pay no more attention to these incredibly ignorant and vicious posts. They are meant to try to throw people off their game and discourage. If it isn't already abundantly obvious, these short dick men that have been posting this useless trash banter have revealed their own insecurities just like children. It's hard to believe that grown men act this way isn't it? Truly cringeworthy. These are the types of idiots that give pharmaceutical reps a bad name. I guarantee that most of these idiots will not end up with the job. It's hard to hide this type of behavior and character. Don't listen to this crap anymore.
One more thing. I'm one of the hiring managers. I'm ashamed of the arrogance of some of these so-called existing Genentech reps. Fortunately, most are not like this.