I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Salesforce (San Francisco, CA) in Jan 2016
Interview
3-4 interviews. When I didn't land one gig, they gave me an opportunity to go through the process again for a different role. Total interviewed 6 or 7 times and ended up being a huge waste of time. They give you so much prep work for the interviews and expect a lot for such a low base.
Really regret wasting my time and money. They were supposed to reimburse me for travel expenses and 5 months, too many follow up emails to count later, I still haven't been refunded. After two months they kept insisting they sent the refund and it takes 4-6 weeks so I need to be patient. Then I kept nagging them to look into it and they found that it was never even approved on their end! Then I was told to be patient and that it would take another two months to go through the process. 5 months later I'm still nagging them to pay me back and yet no reimbursement. They claim to be internally organized but so far it's not the experience I've had.
Glad I didn't get the job because I've never had a company make it this difficult for me to be reimbursed for an interview. Ended up costing me a couple hundred in cab fares though.
Also they knew going into it that I was coming from a different industry and said it doesn't matter. The only feedback I got from all the interviews was they weren't sure how much experience in my industry would transfer to tech.
Recruiter missed multiple interviews only to tell me they have no positions only.
6 months later I receive an interview invite with pay $20k lower than originally discussed
Manager arrives late to the interview then cuts the time early. Company seems disorganized and difficult to take seriously as a so called leader in SaaS.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Explain your sales process
How do you perform outreach
Describe a deal won
Apply via Workday, initial recruiter screening via phone call, 1:1 manager interview and introduction, then panel presentation with role play. You'll need to build and present a deck in the final stages.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Walk me through a deal example and how you won the opportunity.
pretty easy interview. Had to do a case. It felt like it was just a formality and they put me up to it to fit into their standard processes. Not the best experience but it is what it is
Account Executive applicants have rated the interview process at Salesforce with 3.4 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 81% positive. To compare, the company-average is 79.4% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Account Executive roles take an average of 34 days to get hired, when considering 606 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Salesforce overall takes an average of 34 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Salesforce as a Account Executive according to 606 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 22%
Group panel interview: 19%
One on one interview: 16%
Background check: 15%
Presentation: 12%
Drug test: 9%
Skills test: 3%
Personality test: 1%
IQ intelligence test: 1%
Other: 1%
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