My initial contact with Patch was excellent, with the a recruiter who conducted the initial phone interview very professionally, this lasted a little over an hour. They set up a time for me to meet the Local publisher at a coffee shop. That interview went very well, lasted a little over 2 hours, lots of interest on both our sides. I was then informed that the next step would me to meet the regional sales manager, but then it was changed to another phone interview with another local publisher in another state. I spoke with him a few days later, for again about 2 hours. Thus far everyone was impressed with my skill set and my knowledge of the territory and my current book of local business. Then I was told I was going go to "the committee" where my resume and details of my interviews get looked at by some board and say Yes or No. But then I got a request to speak to the Regional Sales manager. During that interview he started to question my AA degree from 1991. I did not know some details but I would get them for him which I did the next day. I tried to refocus of my 10+ years of successful sales experience but he was more concerned about my AA degree a decade ago. I never got a response back from him either by phone or email. Then I called the local publisher whom I spent 2 hours with and he too never responded to me. A week later I called the recruiter back and she said she would call me back by the end of the week. She did and at that point I was told that the Regional Sales Director (whom only talked to me for 30 mins) said "I was not right for the position" I then sent him and the local publisher a very professional email, again which no response to. I finally thought why would I want to work for anyone or any company who treats people with such disrespect. After all I spent over 7 hours of MY time exploring their position. I feel the entire process was very unprofessional, and it was not like it was a position where 100K was on the table or they were handing over a 1M book of business. It was a start up, from the ground up opportunity, with a NEW service.....though they are backed my AOL- big deal its still NEW, one would think that they would be more concerned to find experienced polished professionals who know how to close NEW business rather then some kid out of college. Good luck to them, just watching the local Patch territory where I was applying to, who ever they have selling in that region does not seem to be setting the world on fire! Beware before spending too much time jumping through their hoops of fire to get looked at, really, their interview standards are a little extreme for the position. They wasted much of my time and for me time=Money, so I'm not happy!