anonymous
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anonymous
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P1 & Genentech stink! I need a hotel stay in Chicago the evening prior to my am interview. They honored my request along with many other candidates. This pm I receive my itinerary and I have a roommate. of course they are assigning same gender as roomies but we could both be going for the same job. Worse yet, what if it is a rep at the current company I am working at? You guys are soooo flippen cheapo, unbelievable.
Nutty as bad enough to be shuttled like the cattle from room to room where y'all including some seat fillers get to see who your competitions are but even share a same freakin hotel room with stranger? Yuck dude!
Not surprised... ROaCHE handed down 30% travel reduction to us in March last year. Managers across the board panicked and nixed even the legitimate travel. And the expectation this year is to not exceed the 2015 travel spend. Sure we went thru this back in March 2012 but it was just for that year.
I recall my 1st pharma rep job back in the 90's. I called the day of the interview and cancelled as I really didn't want to relocate to this part of Cali. HR insisted that I come check them out and arranged another interview. They arranged a nice French themed boutique hotel. I got an upgrade to a suite with ocean view, fireplace and balcony when I checked with the front desk person saying something like your company is 1 of our best customer (?). I ordered nice room service breakfast but was charged for it. Hiring manager took me out to a fancy ocean view restaurant with the best table which was reserved for this company. Was I impressed? Hell yeah and get out of peddling commodity medical devices!
Happy Passover and L'Chaim!