Steel River Marketing interview questions

I applied online through zip recruiter and was contacted almost immediately about setting up an interview. I don't live in the area and drove multiple hours to get there for an interview later that week. The office was pretty small with a very friendly receptionist. Most of the employees I saw in there were very young. For the first round of interviews the interviewer just told me about the job and described it as being involved with managing a marketing campaign and eventually a team of people. He didn't go into too many specifics about the actually day to day duties. This interview was pretty easy and short (15 min) for the first round. I was then asked to come back the next week for a second interview. I was kind of annoyed they asked me to drive over 2 hours for just a 15 min interview that could have been done over the phone and then asked me to drive that far a second time for round two, but I was interested in learning more so I returned for the second interview. Both interviews were with different people, but occured in the same empty office that clearly didn't belong to either interviewer. The second round interview lasted maybe 30 min and was with a very young (just out of college age) "owner of the company." It was then revealed that this was essentially a multi level marketing scheme selling internet and cable packages in retail stores that pays a very low base salary with commissions incentives. You essentially start off selling the cable and then moving up to recruiting and managing your own team of people until you eventually can "own" your own business where the CEO still gets a huge cut of your profits. When I asked the interviewer to explain the business model and day to day duties of the job he got weirdly adversarial in his answers and seemed upset I dared to ask for clarification about the job duties. Same thing happened when I asked if this job included health insurance where I was told you could "earn a stipend" to cover it, but it wasn't guaranteed each month and was based on your performance because he "had to protect his bottom line." Apparently the bottom line comes before employee heath and wellness here. I think the guy could tell I was on to the scheme here and not interested, so I did not get an offer. Had I expressed interest and played along with his game, I likely would have been offered the job.

There were 3 rounds of interviews for me. What should have been the first red flag was that the company was very hard to reach, they contacted me once and I had to call them back a good 4-5 times before someone answered the phone. The first interview was over the phone and they asked me to come into their office for a second interview with one of the managers. He was very well spoken and did a very good job and making me and another prospect believe that this was a legitimate marketing position... After looking online I saw other reviews of this company being a scam and initially, I didn't want to believe it since the manager made the position seem so promising. For the third interview, I came in a little more skeptical and my suspicions were confirmed when I was interviewed by someone who was pretty transparent with the job. He broke down the 3 levels and basically described what was essentially a pyramid scheme with enough loopholes so the company can avoid accountability and say that they are not a pyramid scheme. After that, I realized all the other people online warning young college students to stay away were all correct. I got out of there as fast as possible and never looked back. The only positive thing I can think of is the people were very nice, the receptionist was cute, and the office was clean.