I applied through an employee referral. The process took 6 weeks. I interviewed at Salesforce (New York, NY) in Jun 2013
Interview
I was referred to SFDC by a former boss who was a sales manager there at the time. Recruiter reached out immediately for an initial screening. Sooner after, he scheduled time with the hiring manager approximately a week later. The call went well and he outlined next steps including a mock presentation and a sample scenario he would like to me cover, which I took as a good sign. Multiple weeks went by and eventually I had to reached out to the recruiter several times to get an update. Eventually he scheduled another interview with the same manager, this time in person. The manager did not remember anything about me or how I found SFDC, which was a turn off. He did express his disappointment that I was unable to attend a SFDC hiring event a few days earlier, although I never committed to attending. Over the next couple of weeks, I had calls with the manager's counterparts in other regions as well as his boss. None of the conversations were very compelling and SFDC lost its luster for me by the end. The boss did mention he had a concern that I did not have previous experience in a dedicated sales engineer role, but asked if I was open to looking at other positions within the company potentially. I agreed to explore other options, but never heard back from anyone at SFDC nor did I reach out. Other SFDC recruiters have reached out since but my experience was so poor I would not interview with them again.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Rather standard question for a software sales engineer position.. nothing difficult or thought provoking
The interview process was thorough and challenging, but ultimately a positive experience. Glenn and Steve were very friendly to talk to. Admittedly the process was longer than I might normally expect, with weeks between communications
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
If you could solve any one problem in the world, what would it be?
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Salesforce (San Antonio, TX) in Jan 2022
Interview
I was reached out to a few months ago while job searching by a recruiter. I have had a former coworker join SF and heard decent things about the culture and pay. I only had one interview that I cut short as the first question they asked was why I chose to take the interview to which I explained the above. Then they asked me a handful of interrogation questions like what I knew about their culture, how it was different, what were my expectations in salary, but this was done in a rapid fire way and in a very rude manner and framed more hypothetically. I don’t think they actually wanted me to answer, they were trying to test me. I ended the call.
I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Salesforce
Interview
Six 30 min interviews with different team members and other key teams. Plus a final panel presentation where interviewees role play a customer and you present to them as a Sales Engineer
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Sales experience and understanding of the sales process.