I had applied for a job at Exclusive Edge, for the "Marketing Associate" position. The description said that the job involved advertising the company to consumers, and training other associates. I figured that the job mostly involved advertising via the internet, with some phone work, and sometimes going to local businesses to advertise to their employees and patrons. Being that I have worked in customer service in different capacities, and trained new employees at a previous job of mine, I figured I would qualify for this job. I got a phone call a few days after applying and was invited in for an interview. When I arrived, I was greeted by the receptionist who had originally contacted me (turns out she is also the HR manager), and waited just a couple of minutes before my first of two interviews, with a young man who I believe is the head of the company. The first interview was only about 10 minutes long, and in fact wasn't much of an interview, since he didn't ask me many questions about my work experience. He told me a little about Exclusive Edge and said that their client is Verizon FiOs. I have a friend who used to do door-to-door sales for Verizon FiOs and said it was the worst job ever, so I wondered if this job could be the same thing. Nevertheless, I agreed to a second interview a few days later. As I was leaving, I noticed that in the waiting room were several other people waiting for interviews. On the day of my second interview, I must have waited 15-20 minutes for my interview, and for the entire time, the receptionist was calling applicants and scheduling interviews, saying almost the same thing verbatim to each person. I also had a chance to see the salespeople. Every single one of them was a young man dressed in a sharp suit. When it was time for my interview, I was paired up with a senior salesperson, who said that we were going to a nearby location instead of staying in the office. I went in his car and we went to a nearby restaurant, where the approximately hour-long interview was conducted. He was nice, and asked me questions about myself and my employment background, while also telling me about himself and how he came to work with the company. He also told me about the job, that it is a "direct sales position", and how they sell to customers. Just as I suspected, the job is door-to-door sales for Verizon FiOs, commission-only, and involves using your own vehicle to go to all kinds of areas as far as an hour away. Once my suspicion was confirmed, I immediately knew I was no longer interested, but nevertheless still tried to seem engaged so as not to be rude. We spent a while going over the compensation structure. The interviewer made it sound like it was easy to make sales and move up within the company, and kept emphasizing how much money one could possibly make after reaching a certain rank. Then we went back to the office, I filled out a brief form that had a few "quiz questions" about some aspects of the job. After that, I met with a different young man than the one who had interviewed me days earlier. He said that he thought I would be a good fit for the company, and extended me an offer. Even though I already knew I was not interested, I said that I would need to think about it, because I had also been interviewing for other jobs. The next day, I sent an email thanking them for the interview, but that I was declining the offer. Later that day, I actually received a welcome email! I guess they didn't see the email I had sent hours before, so I replied to it with almost the same contents of my previous email, making sure to be polite. This was my first experience with one of these "sales and marketing" companies, but there are so many of them! I'm not sure how many of them have Verizon FiOs as a client, but I've heard some others also work with DirecTV. Some things to watch out for are a bunch of consecutive job advertisements with different titles but similar descriptions, specifically advertising as "entry-level", and their website having little or no information about what they actually do. If you do get a chance to interview with them, more red flags include a full waiting room of applicants, the receptionist constantly calling applicants for interviews, dodging questions about compensation, and them trying to sell the job/company to you rather than the other way around. I really wish they would be more up-front about what the company does. They would get a lot fewer applicants, but at least then they would save a lot of time interviewing people that would not at all be a good fit for the company.