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Updated May 8, 2012 – Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates.
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Sales Consultant at Meltwater Group
Posted May 8, 2012
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Declined Offer
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Interviewed Apr 2012 (took 3 weeks)
Good, straightforward process. Was contacted by managers in the office promptly after submitting my resume, and was quickly referred to necessary higher-ups immediately thereafter. Group interview, presetation, and 1:1 interview occur on the same day and are very informative and professionally conducted. Expect to be put on the spot a bit.
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I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, a Group/Panel Interview and a Presentation.
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International Management Trainee at Meltwater Group
Posted Apr 27, 2012
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Apr 2012 in Melbourne (Australia) (took 2 months)
The staff at Meltwater all love the company so much, and you can see that through everything they say and do. It is obviously a great place to work for some types of people.
I met the some of the team face to face at an event and was blown away by their energy. I sent through my cover letter and CV, which they apparently loved, and was contacted by email. I then had a phone interview, which was casual and relaxed.
I made it through to a group interview. I was invited to their office for a 'mingle session', to discover the 'culture' of Meltwater. Yes, they do have a football table, a few beanbags and a painting on the wall, but they tried to convince us it was the coolest hangout in Melbourne (which to them, it probably was). There is apparently a short holiday each year with the team and other offices which sounded cool.
I was finally invited to the third stage of the process - a group interview, held at a fancy hotel in the city. The morning was intense - there were several short individual presentations and one group one. Although I was nervous, I was confident and poised and was happy with my presentations. We stopped at lunch, and were told to wait for a phone call and an invitation to return for an individual interview with the board in the afternoon. I do not know how many were called back out of the 20-so, probably around 5/6.
The interview lasted for an hour. I sat across the table from a line of 5 Meltwater staff. They tested my cold calling skills with a fake phone call. They asked me many questions about my motives and I felt grilled and interrogated. I felt the boss tried hard to make me slip up, asking questions like - why do you enjoy cold calling and what kind of person do you think that makes you? The other staff, whom I enjoyed developing a warm relationship with throughout the process, did not say much.
Personally, I felt that the bare fact that it is a sales position is overlooked until the last few stages of the interview process. If I were to give feedback to Meltwater, I would say not to give candidates the impression that they have the job in the bag, which I felt at several stages and not through my own imagination but through hints and comments from several of the team. This lead to an extreme disappointment and slight bitterness towards the company now.
When the phone call was made to inform me I had not made it, they spent 10 minutes making idle small talk with me - I don't think this was very professional. I agree that it is the best idea to let someone down gently, but at the end of the day we both know why you are calling so you might as well get to the point!
Overall - great experience personally. However they do brainwash you into believing it is the greatest company in the world - beware!!! Don't feel down if you don't get the job - it just means you don't have to sign your life/friend/family away to a sales job.
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I applied In-Person and the interview consisted of a Personality Test, a Presentation, a Group/Panel Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Phone Interview.
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Social Media Sales Consultant at Meltwater Group
Posted Apr 15, 2012
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5.0
Very Difficult Interview
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Overall Negative Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Nov 2010 in Sydney (Australia) (took 2 weeks)
Interview process entailed a phone interview asking about my previous work history, interest in the company and the role as well as understanding of the industry. I was then invited to a group interview with 10 or so people, with a 3 person panel. We were asked to complete tasks such as group presentations, testing our team work and presenting individually on a topic of our choice, We were also asked to vote on who we would like as our manager from the group of interviewees. Was then invited to an individual interview with the same panel, where I was asked to simulate sales calls. They also asked very pervasive and challenging questions, and it was hard to tell whether the interview was a success, which ultimately it was. They also simulated management skills and gave feedback on all these.
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Negotiation Details
There was no negotiation, it was a standard offer.
Other Details
I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a Group/Panel Interview.
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Sales Consultant at Meltwater Group
Posted Mar 28, 2012
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Mar 2012 in Chicago, IL (took 3 months)
I applied to Meltwater Group and was emailed to set up a phone interview a week later. After the 1st phone interview I was invited for a 2nd phone interview that was 3 weeks after the 1st one. The 2nd phone interview included a lot of the same questions as the first interview. Then I was invited to "check out the office" which was really an informal pannel interview with 3 managers. The next week I was invited to come back to the office for a 2nd (more formal) pannel interview with the same managers plus the visiting area manager. The pannel interview was about an hour long, where they asked some tougher questions and asked me to role play a sales call. this was the toughest part of the whole process. The got back to me pretty fast with their decision not to hire me based on the fact that I wasn't a "Perfect Fit" The whole process took a little over 2 months.
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The interview consisted of a Group/Panel Interview and a Phone Interview.
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Social Media Consultant - International Management Programmer - Traineeship at Meltwater Group
Posted Feb 12, 2012 — 4 of 4 people found this helpful
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2.0
Easy Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Received and Declined Offer
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Interviewed Feb 2012 in Amsterdam (Netherlands) (took 3 weeks)
I received a phone call approx. 3 weeks after my online application. The managing director asked me some questions about my cv and congratulated me with standing out among 150 job applications they received. Then she invited me for a face-to-face interview at the office. This visit was supposed to be a ‘just a chat’, and I sat down with the MD for 30 minutes where she started to ask me a lot of questions like 'What moment in life were you extremely proud of?' or 'Have you ever excelled in any sport activities?'. With every answer I gave, she would tell me 'That's a really good answer!'. The MD made clear that a big part of the job would be sales. She told me her success story about how she started as a trainee as well and then got promoted in 4 months to MD. She explained the recruitment process to me, and told me that the next step - the group interview -would take place with 15 to 20 candidates.
A week later the MD called me and congratulated me with advancing to the next round. Again she mentioned that I could be very proud of myself, because I made it out of so many applications. At this point I started to feel weird that she kept emphasized this so much plus that every time she would call me way after office hours. The group interview was scheduled two weeks later, but I didn't receive the final invitation with all details until 2 days before. The group interview consisted of 20 candidates, the regional manager (who flew in from London), managing director and 2 sales consultants. All candidates were very young: either not yet or recently graduated, or with very little working experience. What we all had in common was that we were very ambitious, lived abroad and have a lot of extracurricular activities. I think that many, just like me, had sent out many job applications, but got rejected (the Dutch job market is really tough atm) and were just so happy about getting an invitation, that we were all thrilled to be there.
The group interview consisted of 2 parts: the first part was a presentation by the MW employees about Meltwater, the business structure (how they grow organically; i.e. everyone starts as a sales consultant and the only way to make it to the top is from that position), the business culture and the ideal candidate profile. They kept emphasizing that they're looking for winners, for ambitious people, for exceptional candidates, which of course made all candidates present feel good about themselves. A smart move, because you actually feel special and honored that they selected you and completely distracts you from the fact that you nor your friends have ever heard of MW prior to the job ad. This time, the presentation mentioned 450 job applications, of which 35 were asked over for an informal visit, of which we were the 20 who made it to the group session. This time it was clear they were just making up numbers. On the other hand they were honest about how much the job was about sales, that the turn-over rate was high (30%) and that this job is not for everyone.
In the second part of the group session you were asked to present yourself in 3 minutes, to work together with 4 other candidates in a workshop (come up with a potential client for MW and explain why), debate with 5 vs 5, pick one other candidate who would suit most as a manager, and hold an elevator pitch of 60 seconds about your hobby. The group session took about 4,5 hours, and from this round they would select 6-8 candidates for the final round the next day. It wasn't a difficult round, but they test your confidence by putting you next to seemingly all-round ambitious kids. I got a call that day late in the evening where they asked me to come back the next day.
The last interview took place with the team who was leading the group session the previous day. For about an hour I got drilled with questions, again like 'mention an event that you had to cope with a setback' and 'what is your weakest quality?'. I also had to do two mock-calls, where two of the MW employees were pretending to be somewhat hard-to-get clients. Then I had to show off my managerial skills, where I had to pretend to be a manager and how to console a demotivated MW sales consultant. Finally they asked me questions about myself, but I didn’t get a feeling they were genuinely interested in that part.
After this session, the MD talked me through the salary structure. Then she told me that they would call everyone within 6 days with the results. In the end, they already called me enhusiastically the next day with a job offer. This time the MD mentioned again how proud I should be and how special I was, because I was selected out of 350 job applications (note the discrepancy with previous mentioned numbers).
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Reason for Declining
During the 'informal cup of coffee' I saw that the job environment is not optimal. At the office the department I applied for was sitting in the basement, and everyone working there were of the type 'smooth operators' and 'sorority sisters'. Also, what I didn't understand were that in the team they were recruiting for were only 3 people: the MD and 2 sales consultants. If the job would be that great, surely more people would be in it?
I got a strong sense that the recruitment team was trying really hard to reel us in by a lot of make-belief and boasting to make MW look like a great company. On the other hand, they were honest about the fact that a big part of the job is about sales. During the final round I was told I would be making about 10 calls a day, which might be downplayed. Also, the two present sales consultants mentioned a couple of times that it could take 3-6 months to close a deal.
All in all, I decided to do some research on MW, stumbled upon a LOT of bad reviews about them and sadly all descriptions matched my suspicions. Everything just sounded too good to be true and with each step of the application process I felt that something wasn't quite right. Mainly because they were boasting too much about the company without ever focusing on the quality of their product or service. The fact that all calls I got were way after office hours were also a bad sign. Especially when the MD told me that they were discussing the last recruitment interviews till 2 am the same night. That doesn't seem healthy, and given the info that they seem to go through this recruitment process every 6 months - I knew that if I would join MW, I'd have to do the same thing in the future.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Group/Panel Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Phone Interview.
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International Sales Program at Meltwater Group
Posted Feb 23, 2012
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Jan 2012 (took a day)
The interview consisted of a phone interview with basic behavioural questions, and have a chat to show personality. The group interview was a presentation by them to tell us what Meltwater was about. We then had to present a 3 minute speech about us. There were then group assessments, and another presentation to sell your hobby.
About 8 managers were there, including the regional manager
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a Group/Panel Interview and a Presentation.
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Sales Consultant at Meltwater Group
Posted Feb 23, 2012
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Feb 2012 in Hong Kong (Hong Kong) (took 1 week)
There is group exercise, debate and elevator speech in the 3 hour interview. I didn't pass the interview. If I passed it, there will be a panel interview.
Before the group interview, there is a phone interview asking "CV things". I was asked to be a sales person ad sell their product to a company within one minutes.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a Group/Panel Interview.
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Internet Marketing at Meltwater Group
Posted Feb 19, 2012
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5.0
Very Difficult Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Feb 2012 in San Francisco, CA (took a day)
Very young and critical group of people. They have you do an unusual Interview process that includes your peers judgment of your leadership qualities.
Begins with a
-3 min Presentation from each person (9-14 applicants watching your presentation). Make sure you explain that your Sales oriented and Analytical in your description of your "greatest accomplishment". They like people that were salesperson of the month etc in their previous position.
-Not the most diverse workplace ( they should work on that) so be aware of that when interviewing. Yet, it kind of seems like that's not of much importance to them.
2. Group sales pitch. Make sure you sound astute and express leadership.
3. Debate your peers on why a tech company is better than another.
They told me I spoke too fast in my first speaking opp. Practice Practice Practice your 3 min pitch!
Blessings. Show em you can sell yourself and their products!
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I got the interview through a Staffing Agency and the interview consisted of a Group/Panel Interview and a Phone Interview.
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Inside Sales at Meltwater Group
Posted Feb 5, 2012 — 1 of 1 people found this helpful
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Negative Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Aug 2010 (took 6+ weeks)
Starts off with a phone interview and a questionaire. I was called 25 minutes before my phone interview was scheduled to begin. They want to know more about how interesting I am in this phase so it is more about "do you have a life?" Concise communication helps.
Next, it's a group interview including others you're interviewing with. Be ready to be evaluated not only by those looking to hire you but also by those you compete against. Here they are looking for individuals who can do the job at hand as well as become future leaders, managers so it is time to showcase this.
Finally if you make it through it will be you and a panel. The seat becomes hot and this is where any areas of prior concern need to be overcome and it is time to really win over the entire panel.
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Negotiation Details
Not a lot of room for negotiation. The salary model is standard.
Other Details
The interview consisted of a Presentation, a Group/Panel Interview and a Phone Interview.
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Inside Sales at Meltwater Group
Posted Jan 11, 2012
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2.0
Easy Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Received and Declined Offer
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Interviewed Jan 2012 in San Jose, CA (took 3 days)
Nice group of people. Be prepared to head in for a group interview. They seem to value energy over experience. This would be a job that's perfect for someone just starting out but not a match for someone with Software experience.
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Reason for Declining
I feel the compensation is too low.
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The interview consisted of a Group/Panel Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Phone Interview.
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