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This is the deleted comment. Sorry about that. ---- I recently interviewed with the country head of a large MNC for a geography account manager's role. Five min
by goombastic 15y ago
This is the deleted comment. Sorry about that.
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I recently interviewed with the country head of a large MNC for a geography account manager's role. Five minutes in, he said he flat out loathed sales guys who would also make cold calls to sell. "It's irritating. It's illegal. And I don't know why you do it."
The other assumption he made was this: since I sell, it's unlikely that I was technical as well. And that was that. I am a little taken aback that such dinosaurs exist. Selling is hard, even more so when people in delivery just don't trust you to sell on their behalf.
I am still recovering from what was probably the shortest interview in my career. What do you make of these statements?
- Lost_BiomedE 15y agoMaybe he was looking for you to sell yourself?
- goombastic 15y agoNot really. This was just someone who "seemed" to not want to listen at all. No eye contact, distracted, no bites on open ended statements, nothing. A meeting with no pulse and just a couple of statements. 2 minutes in, I noticed he wanted to get back to his email, which he did, and then returned to fidgeting with something on the table and no eye contact. By then I just wanted to leave since it seemed like a mutual waste of time.