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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?
Not 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.
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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 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?
Maybe he was looking for you to sell yourself?
Not 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.