To the original poster to this thread...First, I hope your interview went well. I have been following this thread because it seems we are interviewing for the same company/contract...hopefully not against one another since my interview is later in the week so we are probably in different cities. I am also recently laid off from Big Pharma in specialty and this seems like a very good contract. If you can share any insights you have after going through the first face-to-face interview, please share. Thanks and hopefully we will meet in March at training!
The manager is a nice, personable man and I think would be a pleasure to work with. He will be handling a territory which is huge: Indiana, Louisiana, Texas, Calif, Phoenix, Minnesota etc (maybe not all cities but a large territory). He is newly hired and has excellent career experience. Base will be at minimum 85K but there is a range although he did not share. Bonus he said, an attainable bonus is 23K. He could not tell me the name of product or company yet and gave reasons why. He said contract is as rock solid as possible. He will be the only manager as the client will not be involved in that. He could not say whether or not we would work with the clients reps BUT our accounts will be ours, not shared.
In regards to interview very laid back and questions-maybe 5- were very easy and no big surprises. He said he will be the one contacting the candidate or candidates that move forward to a phone call basically. He said although no Skype he found out today a call will happen. I asked if 1 or 2 candidates to move forward and he said he did not know as client will propose that. Other than that decisions hopefully to be made next week if all runs smoothly. It will be interesting to see how that goes as I am told the manager is hiring for 11 positions. That's all I can think of.