Had an LinkedIn Exchange with the recruiter. From there, she set up an interview with CEO Bruce Kaufmann. After 25-30 minute phone conversation they invited me in for a face-to-face interview. Everything from there was a complete waste of time and effort.
The interview ended up being mostly the two C-levels (Bruce and Jim) of a 25 person company stroking their egos and listening to themselves talk. They hardly asked two questions of me the whole time. The CTO began by asking about what I did in college. Really bizarre interview questions for me being that I haven't attended college in well over a decade. It was the biggest bunch of insular, fake corporate visionary, small company bluster I've ever heard. I can see why these guys have been around for 50 years and still are small time.
After the interview, they asked me to look over one of their proposals that apparently I would be drawing up by hand. What successful sales person has time write up 25 page proposals? Obviously not many being that they only have one official sales guy. At the end of the interview it seemed like they were gearing up to make me an offer in the next couple days from what they told me. That never came. What I got was a pathetic e-mail explaining that they were looking for someone with "At this time, we need an account manager who has an existing portfolio of clients and who has a working knowledge of digital video acquisition, distribution and visualization systems." Let me backtrack by saying the only reason he had for bringing me in is based on a company I worked for 5 years ago - Vbrick. I had not worked in this industry since then and I was very upfront about that both in writing and verbally. He still brought me to interview, then gave me a thumbs down because of it.
These guys are clearly a clueless small time tech outfit, wannabe Elon Musks, that has no idea what they're looking for. They're conducting experimental interviews and not respecting anyone's time they take to prep and take time off their existing job for.
