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      Strategic Account Executive Interview

      Mar 7, 2018
      Anonymous employee
      San Francisco, CA
      Accepted offer
      Positive experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Salesforce (San Francisco, CA) in Feb 2018

      Interview

      I worked with my initial recruiter Keaka Hashimoto, who was quite literally one of the best recruiters that I have ever worked with in my career. I proactively reached out to him looking to land my dream job at Salesforce. Keaka went to work right away and got me sent over to another recruiter that got me in front of a hiring manager. All of that took about a week, it was fast! That being said, while the hiring manager (RVP) wanted to hire me right away, he ended up not getting the open req and I was left to wait. While waiting for the req to get released and even though I had another recruiter working with me on the role, Keaka took proactive steps to continue to look for other roles for me. In the end, he found me a much better role working with the Enterprise team (carrying the full bag) and working with Strategic Accounts (which is the best role in sales). He put me into the process right away and a few short weeks later I was hired. Now for the process I will strip out the waiting that I personally did by my own choice and just give you the basics. It all starts with the recruiter, make sure you are using someone and I highly recommend that you search for Keaka and connect with him. From there he will screen you and if you make it past him he will send you to another recruiter that will also screen you before you speak to the hiring manager. This can be a very quick process and take less than a week. From there you have a phone interview with the hiring manager and that may lead to another call with their VP or others. This could take another week or more as well. After that, you should be invited in for a Stand and Deliever presentation. You will typically present around the product that you will be selling. If ou are going to carry the full bag then they have you present to a random product that they choose. In my case it was around marketing cloud. In my case, I flew to corporate and met with the hiring manager and team there for the presentation. They took care of all of the expenses, put you up in a nice hotel, etc. After the stand and deliever it was less than a week until I had my offer letter. Once signed, you go through a background check. I started in my role as the background check was being processed and a few days in I received a note from my secondary recruiter advising me that the background check had cleared. Further, the background check company sent me full emails of the check. I could view them online but I also received a hard copy in the mail.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Why Salesforce?
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      Salesforce response
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      Thank you for taking time to share these details with the Glassdoor community! It was great to read your success story. I especially love to hear that our recruiters created a personalized and efficient experience. Welcome to the #SalesforceOhana! - Ana Recio, SVP of Global Recruiting

      Other Strategic Account Executive Interview Reviews for Salesforce

      Strategic Account Executive Interview

      Jul 8, 2025
      Anonymous employee
      London, England
      Accepted offer
      Positive experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Salesforce (London, England) in Jun 2025

      Interview

      Simple interview process. Met with two recruiters then the RVP for an hour. After that I had the panel interview which wasn’t overly difficult as they just wanted to understand how you sell and learn more about you as a person. Then 3 days later I was offered the role. Pretty simple process and well coordinated. The whole thing took about 3 weeks from the time I submitted an application.

      Interview questions [1]

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      Tell me how you would approach needing to work with multiple reps all trying to pitch their product within the same account?
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      Strategic Account Executive Interview

      Mar 15, 2022
      Anonymous employee
      Boston, MA
      Accepted offer
      Positive experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied through an employee referral. The process took 5 weeks. I interviewed at Salesforce (Boston, MA) in Nov 2021

      Interview

      Extremely professional, supportive, and responsive interview process. I had an initial recruiter interview on the phone, followed by a hiring manager Google meet, a Google meet with another team member, and a final online presentation to a four person panel. A very positive experience!

      Interview questions [1]

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      Walk me through a customer win
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      Strategic Account Executive Interview

      Nov 17, 2020
      Anonymous employee
      Brussels
      Accepted offer
      Positive experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Salesforce (Brussels) in Oct 2020

      Interview

      Overall it took 2 months. I've had 4 calls with the recruiter, hiring manager, a current employee that has the same function and a panel with senior management. Everyone was very transparent and professional. The procedure went great.

      Interview questions [1]

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      How will you lead a virtual team? How will you hit the ground running?
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      Salesforce interviews FAQs

      • Strategic Account Executive applicants have rated the interview process at Salesforce with 3.5 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 100% positive. To compare, the company-average is 79.4% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
      • Candidates applying for Strategic Account Executive roles take an average of 33 days to get hired, when considering 19 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 Strategic Account Executive according to 19 Glassdoor interviews include:

        Phone interview:  19%

        Group panel interview:  18%

        One on one interview:  18%

        Background check:  16%

        Drug test:  13%

        Presentation:  11%

        Skills test:  2%

        IQ intelligence test:  1%

        Other:  1%

        Personality test:  1%

      • Here are the most commonly searched roles for interview reports -

        1. Account Executive(2540) ;
        2. Software Engineer(539) ;
        3. Business Development Representative (BDR)(532) ;
        4. Senior Account Executive(426) ;
        5. Technical Support Engineer(385) ;
        6. Sales(311) ;
        7. Director(283) ;
        8. Solution Engineer(229) ;
        9. Enterprise Account Executive(225) ;
        10. Senior Software Engineer(222) ;
        11. Member of Technical Staff(MTS)(217) ;
        12. BDR(212) ;
        13. Sales Development Representative (SDR)(211) ;
        14. Solutions Engineer(200) ;
        15. Manager(197) .


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