A 3 stage interview process. Initially I had a telephone interview with the member of the HR team. I then had 2 further face to face interviews, where I was interviewed by Senior members of the sales team. The second interview involved a presentation to the interviewers, after being given data on the current product range to review and present back.

Telephone, first stage cv & competency qs, final stage presentation with LM and sales director. They won’t even offer you a glass of water or drink before the presentation. They will interrogate you in the interviews to the point you don’t know why you were invited to come for an interview, or final interview. The interviewers were all at Philips for 5+ years and felt a bit culty/if joining it wouldn’t be a very open and welcoming culture. Maybe they were trying to interrogate (aggressively not constructively) candidates to test how they perform under pressure like how a buyer might, but not sure this is suitable for a first stage/getting to know what a candidates experience is (post telephone). HR were good and encouraging for first stage, but they did leave me a voicemail job rejection. Companies need to realise the impact of their recruitment processes and their treatment of candidates like a number is not okay.