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Have you ever been on a team where someone was not pulling their own weight? How did you handle it? Tell me about a time when you had to give someone difficult feedback. How did you handle it? What is your greatest failure, and what did you learn from it? What irritates you about other people, and how do you deal with it? If I were your supervisor and asked you to do something that you disagreed with, what would you do? What was the most difficult period in your life, and how did you deal with it? Give me an example of a time you did something wrong. How did you handle it? What irritates you about other people, and how do you deal with it? Tell me about a time where you had to deal with conflict on the job. If you were at a business lunch and you ordered a rare steak and they brought it to you well done, what would you do? If you found out your company was doing something against the law, like fraud, what would you do?
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Inside Sales Account Manager

Interviewed at CA Technologies

3★
Oct 9, 2015

Have you ever been on a team where someone was not pulling their own weight? How did you handle it? Tell me about a time when you had to give someone difficult feedback. How did you handle it? What is your greatest failure, and what did you learn from it? What irritates you about other people, and how do you deal with it? If I were your supervisor and asked you to do something that you disagreed with, what would you do? What was the most difficult period in your life, and how did you deal with it? Give me an example of a time you did something wrong. How did you handle it? What irritates you about other people, and how do you deal with it? Tell me about a time where you had to deal with conflict on the job. If you were at a business lunch and you ordered a rare steak and they brought it to you well done, what would you do? If you found out your company was doing something against the law, like fraud, what would you do?

Fairly basic-- do you know this? Do you know that? What would your manager say about you now? Describe a time where you had a difficult customer, what did you do? Describe this, describe that. They're just following a script, no training has actually been given to the hiring manager on how to interpret your response. Basically they're just looking for someone they like, and yes, they hire on looks, if you know someone, and if they've been told to hire you. There'll be a role play on how to pitch products, so study up on current promotions before you go. Dazzle them with words like DMA and market share and you're in.
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Inside Sales Manager

Interviewed at Bay Area News Group

3.1★
Apr 22, 2016

Fairly basic-- do you know this? Do you know that? What would your manager say about you now? Describe a time where you had a difficult customer, what did you do? Describe this, describe that. They're just following a script, no training has actually been given to the hiring manager on how to interpret your response. Basically they're just looking for someone they like, and yes, they hire on looks, if you know someone, and if they've been told to hire you. There'll be a role play on how to pitch products, so study up on current promotions before you go. Dazzle them with words like DMA and market share and you're in.

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