3Cinteractive Sales Interview Questions & Reviews

Interviewed Dec 2011 (took 3 days)

The initial interview process consisted of phone interviews with the hiring manager and two other key VPs. The people were very nice and the interview process was very easy...too easy. The interviewers were all formerly from telecom companies and appeared to lack any substantive experience in hiring people in a software company.

The next step was a face-to-face interview in their corp office. It consumed a whole day and consisted of no less than six interviews. It was preceded by three phone interviews with remote staff. The process was clearly hiring by consensus. The hiring manager was inexperienced and paranoid about making a bad hire. He was also clearly subjectively attempting to hire non-threatening candidates who were beneath him in experience, capabilities and competency.

The company is a software company and curiously the majority of people there are ex-telecom people from siloed environments. In keeping with a telecom environment, the company appears to hand out VP titles like they are nothing. You cannot determine who the leaders are from their titles and many are over their heads in their positions. All critical decision making likely lies with the founders, which is a bottleneck and dangerous.

I was ultimately rejected with a form email, which was impersonal and insulting given the time I spent interviewing. It was just another example of the inexperience of the people that work there.

The company goes to great lengths to describe themselves as a great place to work. The reality appears to be that all critical decision making is centrally controlled, which would not make it a good environment if you are looking for a decision making position.

Recommendation to management: Stop hiring ex-telcom people. Hire some experienced software people or you eventually will get yourself into trouble down the road.