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      Inside Sales Representative Interview

      27 Feb 2017
      Anonymous employee
      Duluth, MN
      Accepted offer
      Negative experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I applied through university. I interviewed at Microsoft (Duluth, MN) in Nov 2016

      Interview

      Started with a phone interview, which was pretty standard for a screening interview. I was then scheduled for 3 skype interviews in succession for 30 minutes each. Each interview was with a different person within the Fargo branch. The interview process went very well and I received an offer. My negative experience was associated with the background check. They use an outside organization called TrueScreen to compile their background checks for them. They proved to be very unaccommodating to the schedule of a busy college student. The questions on the background check were very unclear and caused issues in the process, which led to many phone calls and emails for clarifying information and additional paperwork, such as W-2's. Apparently, they had called my former places of work and were unable to get in contact with a few of my former bosses. However, when I called my bosses to see what happened, they said they had never received a call in the first place. This all led to negative areas on my background check, which the Microsoft background check review team rejected. They then rescinded my offer. Learn from my experience and be very thorough and detailed on your background check. They are extremely unforgiving and expect every detail to be perfect. Do not delay them in their process either. When they call, drop everything you are doing and answer right away. It was very clear that they did not like to wait and expected you to put down everything you were doing, no matter how important, to answer their questions. I would often be at class and work and couldn't answer right away, and they would call 3 times in a 3-hour span. If you make them wait too long, they will view you as a nuisance and will be unforgiving when compiling your report. They are extremely detail oriented to the point of absurdity. Treat it like another interview. You still have to be on top of your game. All in all, I had a very poor background check experience. Although I had an offer and was qualified for the job and had nothing on my background check beside 2 petty misdemeanors (the legal equivalent of a traffic ticket) they rescinded my offer. I had talked to my recruiter before the background check process to see her opinion on if the petty misdemeanors would affect my chances, and she told me that the charges I had were common and had not hindered other candidates from being hired. Learn from my mistakes and realize these guys aren't messing around. You're just a name on a page to them, so don't give them a reason to not like you. I must clarify my interview was great and was conducted wonderfully. My only complaint is with TrueScreen.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      How will you approach taking over 80 phone calls a day?
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