I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Paychex in Jan 2012
Interview
I prescreened with a recruiter and he was able to arrange a one on one interview for me. The interview was scheduled a few weeks out but it was during the holidays so I'm not sure if this is typical. They sent me quite a lot of paperwork to complete beforehand. The interview was early in the morning and the first thing they did was give me a timed math test. It was very SAT in nature and you had 16 minutes to finish as many questions as possible. Then they gave the personality assessment which was the common "choose which word is most/least like you." The interview itself was average to slightly difficult. He asked me questions about how I would handle certain sales scenarios, what I thought their greatest obstacles were, etc. I left with a good feeling but did not receive an offer. I think it was due to lack of experience in compliance.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
Would you rather have sales support setting your appointments or handling the after sale paperwork?
3 different interviews with 3 different managers. Followed that with a job shadow to allow me to see a day in the field. Then an offer was made and I moved to the location I interviewed for
I applied through other source. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Paychex
Interview
Had an HR screening, then I had an interview with 2 Managers which went great, and a final round interview with the Senior District Sales Manager. I emailed the Senior Manager to schedule time for the final round but he liked to act like he was all busy and important, after about an hour of no response I sent him another email asking if he had a time in mind and responded within a minute. The Senior Manager had this inflated sense of worth that apparently he's too high up there to bother responding within an hour to an initial email if it's not convenient for him. Following the final interview, I received the standard rejection email and asked for feedback from the Senior Manager on what I could've done better. Never received a response; like I said before, his inflated sense of worth makes him think it's ok to not answer a basic request.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Walk me through your sales process at where you currently work
Focused on sales experience and willingness to aggressively encourage leads to sign up for their software. Questions about qualifying leads or questions about how their product was different were not well received