NetApp Sales Engineer Interview Questions & Reviews

Interviewed Mar 2010 (took 4 months)

I was contacted by a recruiter who found me on LinkedIn. He and I talked for about 30 minutes and he asked for my resume'. After reviewing my resume' and apparently forwarding it to the hiring manager, he said she would definitely be contacting me. I heard back from her about 2 weeks later via e-mail to set up a phone interview. We talked for about an hour and a half, about me, my experience, NetApp, what the job would be like. She wanted me to talk to a couple of members of her team. I heard from them about 2 more weeks later. Those conversations lasted about an hour each, the first I really connected with and was made to feel like I was a top candidate. The other was a little more challenging, but I won him over to my side before it was over. During this time they were struggling to fill the sales rep position locally after making a couple of offers and not making any headway. So, time drug on and I heard from the recruiter in June asking if I was still interested. Seems they also had a "hiring freeze" during this time, as well. Eventually, they had hired a sales rep and wanted me to meet with him. Ok, this sounds great! Meeting went well, was impressed by his youth and aggressiveness. Was to meet his manager a couple of weeks later, but a personal situation on his part kept that from happening, met with sales rep and another sales engineer instead. Again, all was great, conversations were fantastic and I was lead to feel that I was the top candidate again. Then, nothing. No followup, no response to inquiries, just silence. I heard later that apparently, the new sales rep had a guy he wanted to bring in to the position and I suppose that's the route they took. Shame though, I would have been a good fit for the job and the team. Also sad that after all the effort and the followup on my part that they couldn't at least drop me a note to let me know they took a different direction.