I initially had a brief phone interview with the sales manager. I was asked to come in for and in person interview several days later. The in person interview went very well. At that time I was told the next steps would be a ride along, then an interview with the gm, and then a brief interview by phone with the regional sales manager. He told me a senior sales rep would be contacting me to do the ride along and that he would be out of town the following week. The senior sales rep did call and we did go out on a ride along the same week the sales manager was out of town. It went very well. The following tuesday when the sales manager got back into town I received a rejection letter and was told they went with another candidate. (it is obvious to me now that they had already selected this other individual, and they were going through the motions with me). About a week later I saw the ad posted again for the same position. This person either did not accept the position or did the job for a week and quit. They did not even have the decency to call me in, even though the rejection letter said they would if they had another position. Don't waste your time. You are dealing with 36,000 base and five year service contracts. Even if everyone on the block wanted to go with you they couldn't because they are already stuck in a contract. You have to type into a blackberry after every sales call what you did at that account. Talk about time consuming and breaking your momentum. For god sakes give your sales reps a computer!!! Don't waste potential candidates time on four hour ride alongs if you have no intention of hiring them. They have better things to do like look for a real job!