It is a behavioral interview process. They ask you how you acted in several different situations. The process is the same across the country. If the Managing Director likes you then you may meet the Compliance Manager and eventually the Territory VP and the Territory HR Consultant. They will try to put you into a training position that pays almost nothing with a promise to promote you to the real position in 6 months to 1 yr. The training position pays you on personal production.

I scheduled an interview when a prudential recruiter contacted me about a management position. Since the hiring manger was not ggoing to be in my area for a while, I agreed to meet at a location 2 hours away. Upon arriving at the interview, I was escorted through a large room filled with mostly empty cubicles to a conference room where I met the managing director of the region. The first interview question was to tell the interviewer about myself, during which I clearly explained why I was looking for a management position and wanted nothing to do with being a producer. During the next 30 minutes I learned that instead of managing an existing team, I would be responsible for recruiting my own team. Furthermore, the only way to become a manager was to start as a producer (in order to become "Prudentialized") and join their manager development program that would be conducted at their location 1.5 hours away. A few days after the interview when the recruiter followed up, I explained that I was not interested due to the bait and switch nature of the process. She wanted to turn the blame to me and had an attitude when I disagreed with their flawed process. Ultimately , this "manager " interview seemed like an underhanded attempt to recruit commission only salespeople. No wonder as to why those cubicles were empty.