Medline (family-owned Northfield, IL medical-supplies giant) hires heavily into a field sales rep force via a Sales Rep Training Program that recruits new grads off .edu campuses and door-to-doors into acute care, post-acute, and long-term-care accounts. First-hand accounts describe a fairly conventional recruiter screen + hiring-manager interview + a short pre-hire assessment, with the compensation structure (commission-only or thin base + commission in year one) itself often driving candidates out mid-loop. Public first-person writeups are scarce outside r/sales because most posts are pre-interview questions rather than post-interview reports; Reddit rate-limited most per-post fetches on this attempt.
These 1 writeup cover sales, medical device sales, warehouse and other roles, US only. All of them were posted under a pseudonym (Reddit, GeeksforGeeks or forum handles), so we could not verify the authors’ identities.
Not selectedcommission only, with a possible base + commission in year 14 rounds
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Recruiter phone screenPhone screen
Talent-acquisition call covering sales background and walking through the comp structure. The author flags that comp was pitched as commission-only, with a possible base + commission for year one.
A pre-hire assessment (author does not name the vendor). After completing it the candidate was told they were advancing to next steps.
Covered · Aptitude, Sales aptitude
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OutcomeFinal
About a week after being told they were moving forward, the candidate was informed the position had been filled. No hard feelings but the commission-only comp would have been a dealbreaker anyway.
Medline (family-owned Northfield, IL medical-supplies giant) hires heavily into a field sales rep force via a Sales Rep Training Program that recruits new grads off .edu campuses and door-to-doors into acute care, post-acute, and long-term-care accounts. First-hand accounts describe a fairly conventional recruiter screen + hiring-manager interview + a short pre-hire assessment, with the compensation structure (commission-only or thin base + commission in year one) itself often driving candidates out mid-loop. Public first-person writeups are scarce outside r/sales because most posts are pre-interview questions rather than post-interview reports; Reddit rate-limited most per-post fetches on this attempt.
What topics does Medline test in interviews?
Commonly reported topics include Sales roleplay, Past projects, Domain knowledge, Behavioral.
These guides summarize public, first-hand interview experiences shared by candidates. They describe the shape of each loop and the topics that came up, not a leaked question bank, and every experience links back to its original source. Processes change often; treat this as directional prep, not a script.