First Investors Corporation Financial Services Representative Interview Questions & Reviews

Interviewed Aug 2011 (took 2 days)

First of all, if you are called in to interview for this position, decline. It is a complete scam.

I got to their office and sat down in a conference room with 4 or 5 other potential recruits. The office manager then proceeded to give us a nearly 3 hour ppt presentation which was essentially a sales pitch for the position. Many fun phrases like "unlimited earnings potential" and "manage an office in three years" were used. I realised soon that no legit job would have to spend this much effort convincing prospective hires that they should work there.

Afterwards I had a 15 or 20 minute 1:1 interview with the manager. It became apparent during this interview that I probably knew more about finance than he did. He asked me vague personality-type questions which are easy to BS. Though I knew the job wasn't legit, my philosophy is never turn down a job until you have the offer, so I decided to go in for the second round the next day.

The next day, we had to sit through ANOTHER 3 hour presentation which was largely overlapping with the first. In the 1:1 interview, I asked some key questions about the position which were not addressed during the presentation. Here's what I learned: A) the position has no base salary and is 100% commission paid. B) the training is not paid--in fact you have to pay nearly $1000 out of your own pocket for it. C) the company does not supply leads to you--you are expected to build your own network out of preexisting contacts (i.e. family and friends). D) there are NO benefits. I had no reservations about declining the offer on the spot.