It was fairly short, for an hour and 30 minute commute the interview was only 5 minutes. It was hard finding the location and once I arrived the first thing I saw was a dog and I had to walk all the way to the back to let them know that I was actually here. I feel like if they let people know up front what they plan on doing then they would have better success retaining employees.

3 day interview process. During the first interview, I was told that it was merely for the purposes of "putting a face to the resume." I wasn't told anything about the company - on the contrary, I shared what I knew about the organization and spent the next 10 minutes asking the man interviewing me questions, instead of the other way around. The man asked me what days worked for me for a second interview, which would be a job shadow. I got an email confirmation for the second interview, only advising me to "wear comfortable shoes" as the only warning of what the second interview might be like. I arrive for the second interview and waited patiently with several other applicants in a waiting room. We soon got split up into groups: my group consisted of an employee, one trainee, one other young man in his second interview, and myself. The manager told us, "you can go out the way you came in," pointing towards the door. I was confused but follow the others outside. I soon find out that this is a full day interview during which we will be traveling (using public transportation---and doing so by spending our own money...) and will have to return to the Georgetown office around 9pm, IF the employee thinks we are worthy (Excuse me?!) The other interviewee and myself are very confused and taken aback; there was absolutely no warning of this whatsoever. I ask the employee what regular hours look like for an employee, and he says roughly 11am-11pm. I should have run after hearing that. I ask the employee what we will be doing today. He replies that we will be meeting with clients, and only when I push further, does he say that "the area we will be working in is residential." I still don't know what we are about to do but decide to go with it. Soon we board a bus, then a metro, then another bus, and get off in Silver Spring, Maryland. Again, all with our own money. No one seems to be in a hurry because we stop for lunch before we do anything else. The employee doesn't seem to know where he is going - he keeps looking up directions and bus routes on his handy company iPad. We arrive in an apartment complex, and I realize we are about to go door to door and I am in complete shock. The employee explains that they are working on an "energy campaign". From what I observed, each situation went like this: The employee knocks on a door. Someone opens the door, and if they seem open enough to hold a conversation, the employee then says something along the lines of, "we are following up on a notice on the back of your utility bill...go get your bill and I'll show you what I'm talking about." He then proceeds to explain how these people are paying more than they should be, try to get them to agree to 'their' service, whatever that is. I am extremely frustrated now, because if I had known this was how my entire day was going to be spent, I wouldn't have wasted my time. We knock on doors for the next 4/5 hours. The other interviewee decides not to come back to Georgetown for interview #3, especially since he is from Silver Spring, and is miffed that he has been made to go back and forth already, unnecessarily. The rest of us bus and metro back to Georgetown. I come back to the office to find all the employees drinking, playing loud music, and having a good time. I get called in to speak with the same man who did my first interview (if you can call it that). We talk for some time, and gives me all this talk about how he's worked in the corporate world and values his job at Capital Acquisitions because they allow for growth from within, and basically pay a lot. He said after his own second interview that there was no way he was going to do it, but he is about to become a manager, and that is really incredible (?). The program is pretty much a "manager training" program - if you go through the steps/put in the work, you get promoted and if you make it to manager, you can start your own office. But there is no escaping the door to door stuff. He tells me to think about it, that it pays well (I wouldn't hear that it was commission based until later), and that he'd love for me to join the team. I am monumentally confused and tell him I'll think about it. This company is misleading, unclear, sketchy, and quite honestly a bit disrespectful. They are absolutely NOT a marketing firm. Transparency, or at least a bit more openness about who they are as a company, would go a long way.