Thanks for all the responses, everyone - and, bkw, I'm psyched to hear you'll be using our books!
As a co-author of several of the Veritas Prep lessons and the final decision-maker in all instructor hiring and training, I'd just like to clarify a few of the claims in this thread. I love having opportunities to talk about how our lessons have been created and how our instructors are hired and trained.
-Having personally written scores of pages of original content for the Veritas Prep lesson materials, I can assure you that they are not mostly "sourced from other companies". Most of our lesson books have been created by top instructors who have several years apiece of GMAT teaching and tutoring experience.
-We do offer, as part of our suite of 15 practice tests, five tests produced by 800Score, and we used to feature some tests produced by Thomson/Arco, but created additional proprietary tests to replace those when we became discouraged by the lack of frequency with which they were updated to more accurately reflect the current question makeup of the actual GMAT.
-For our hiring process, we do conduct telephone interviews as an initial screen of quality applicants. Next, we invite candidates to conduct a teaching interview in an online classroom, and then we invite the top-performing candidates from that round to conduct an in-person interview with one of our Mentor Instructors (David@VeritasPrep and I, both from this website, are on the team that conducts those interviews). That Mentor Instructor then becomes a mentor for the new instructor during his/her first few courses, after, of course, the new instructor has served as a teaching assistant for an entire course.
What I like most - and new instructors tend to love - about that hiring process is that by the end of it each new instructor has worked with three veteran instructors: Me, as the initial interviewer, an Instructor Mentor from the in-person interview, and the lead instructor on the TA course. As we've seen with the evolution of our lesson books, you can learn a whole lot about how to take this test by sharing the best strategies of multiple instructors and leveraging those to create newer, better ways of relating information.
@bkw - keep me posted on your progress with our books and let me know if I can help!
Brian Galvin
GMAT Instructor
Chief Academic Officer
Veritas Prep
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