After the initial phone interview, which was very easy, I was asked to choose a time to go to a group interview. Wells Fargo seemed to want to dictate what I wear, which is fine, but seemed a bit odd. However, I'm sure it shored up the professionalism of the interview.
The group interview took place at a local branch, and was headed by a recruiter for Wells Fargo, and a branch manager among those who were hiring sat in as well. The questions were mostly those expected, for example asking about out best sales experience, and a time when we went out of our way for a customer.
My one gripe about a group setting is that someone has to go before someone else, and while that's life, it leads to some people using your answers to craft their own. A key example being in a question and answer session where on both questions I asked, another interviewee obviously thought I was competition and formed a question to their own ends, seeming to try to make my question sound silly. This lead me to believe that a group interview is not appropriate for people who are not yet fully mature. However, I was called for a second interview.
My second interview went very well. Questions were reiterated, and there were a few more follow-up instances, making it feel a lot more like a conversation. While I am not sure how many other people moved on, there was given the impression that quite a few did, as I was not to receive notice for well over a week. This is when things got very annoying.
It seemed obvious I had made a very good impression on the interviewer, by their behavior afterward, and both (the person to be my immediate boss and their boss) were outwardly impressed during the interview.
I waited the period of time, and then called. I was told that they were right then forwarding my information to another branch, as they had decided to keep their current line-up. That's fine, as the location they were sending to was so close to home I could walk there.
Then that manager send me an e-mail not ten minutes later, saying they too were keeping their line-up as it stood. So that was it. All that interviewing, and of the three local branches two decided not to hire, and one was already finished hiring.
I walked into that second branch a few weeks later, as I ALSO BANK THERE, and lo and behold, one of the people who was in group interview with me, among those people supposedly not being hired at all, was training that day. Excuse me, but it seems very inappropriate to say one thing and do another. I would have much rather been just told I did not meet requirements, not told that no one was hiring. That is VERY poor practice, and I would recommend thinking long and hard before going through a very lengthy process only to be lied to in the end.
My overall advice is if you even decide to go through this process anyway, please be ready to completely ignore any claims of no positions and keep right on lobbying until they tell you to go away for good, because otherwise you will be letting them get away with lying to you.