Definitely shady. It was 15 minutes with 2 other candidates and the hiring manager (in the email it said I'd be interviewing with a different person. When I looked up that person on linkedin, he didn't even work for Apollo Consulting). Once we all answered some basic questions about what we're looking for in a job, she told us the company has 1 client, Verizon, and they're looking to fast track people to a management position (6-12 month training program) so they can put them as the directors of their own Verizon offices. I applied to be a marketing manager at a consulting firm, not the director of operations for verizon... They also said that second interviews would be later that day. Seems like they're trying to rush people through without giving candidates a chance to really consider what their saying yes to.

It was a group interview with the hiring manager, me, and two other applicants. The manager said he wanted to do a quick prescreening with all of us and then he'd call us individually later the same day about a second, more serious interview.