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No Offer – Interviewed in Sydney Jan 2013 – Reviewed Apr 04, 2013
Interview Details Initial phone screen discussing the opportunity, followed by an in-person meeting with your recruiter. They ask questions about your resume and determine what role you are best suited for. They will then set up meetings with the respective hiring managers. If you make it through you will meet with the director. If they reach a decision they will contact you and make the offer.
Interview Question – What would your biggest challenge be coming in to this role Answer Question
No Offer – Interviewed in Sydney – Reviewed Oct 06, 2012
Interview Details
Extended process going through several interviews by phone and then face to face.
Standard process can take as many as 7 interviews during which you will not know if they are keen on you or not.
Final interview is a Scripted scenario in which you are expected to present from a deck of 80 slides, and if in pre-sales you will also need to demo the product.
Key to this process is to read the instructions!
The goal of this role-play session is to get a next meeting with the role-play client. Grab any/every chance to get the next meeting even if it means dropping your slides and goign straight for closing questions.
Interview Question – Does the application support Japanese? View Answer
Declined Offer – Interviewed in San Francisco, CA (US) Feb 2013 – Reviewed May 18, 2013 New
Interview Details Initial screening was interesting and seemed rushed to get you into a specific role quickly without fully qualifying your background. Lack of probing questions. Seemed to be incented to get you into an interview for a lower-level role first, rather than find the right fit. I feel they need to be VERY careful about their elimination process as they appear to be targeting a certain age profile.
Interview Questions
Reason for Declining – Following 3rd round of interviews/presentation, I uncovered that they appeared to want younger candidates that were more focused on lead-generation rather than skills at developing longer-term relationships. I feel that sales in IT should be more relationship based and not transactional. This appears to be a short-term market-grab strategy with little or no focus on relationships.
Accepted Offer – Interviewed on San Mateo, CA (US) Nov 2009 – Reviewed May 07, 2013
Interview Details
Phone screen by recruiter
In-person interview with a panel of managers (typically the ones that have an open rec)
Presentation (this may be changing soon)
Interview Question – Why should someone choose salesforce as opposed to a competitor? Answer Question
No Offer – Interviewed in Santa Monica, CA (US) Apr 2013 – Reviewed Apr 25, 2013
Interview Details There was a 1 hour phone interview with hiring manager. If that goes well, it was followed by a 2 hour times programming test. That went well and was invited for on-site interview. It was 4 technical interviews. 1 was with a iOS developer, lunch interview with managers, Android concepts with 2 Android Engineers, 1 with product manager and last one with two Test Engineers
Interview Question – OOPs concepts Answer Question
No Offer – Interviewed in Mar 2013 – Reviewed Apr 25, 2013
Interview Details
1st Round of Phone Screening
2nd Round onsite pure Java Screening
Interview Question –
Not Difficult or unexpected questions
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Previous Work experience
About Tools that I worked on
How do you test Facebook App
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No Offer – Interviewed in San Francisco, CA (US) – Reviewed Apr 24, 2013
Interview Details
Applied online.
Received call from interviewer for initial screen a month and a half later. Was asked about my past experiences and told more about the role.
Was told they wanted to move me to next steps of speaking with the hiring manager. After that it would be an on-site interview with a number of people.
Interview Question – None Answer Question
Accepted Offer – Reviewed Apr 24, 2013
Interview Details All in all very open and professional. Two initial phone interviews followed by a presentation with a set of quesgiins afterwards. My HR contactkept me updated throughout the process. A+
No Offer – Interviewed in San Francisco, CA (US) Mar 2013 – Reviewed Apr 23, 2013
Interview Details I received a referral to apply to the internship. Submitted my resume and received a quick reply for a phone interview. Interview was very simple. Basically had to explain past work experience and why I was interested in Salesforce.
Interview Question – None. Answer Question
No Offer – Reviewed Apr 22, 2013
Interview Details
I applied online and the HR/Recruiter was prompt in contacting me. A phone interview was lined up. This was all done in email. I got the call from the interviewer. He had a thick accent, which I can deal with in normal circumstances. However, he was on his speakerphone in his cubicle. He was rustling papers and typing right next to the phone. There were bursts of conversation in the background. Most of the interview consisted of me asking him to repeat himself and trying to paraphrase what he just said. He rambled all over the place. I'm a little hard of hearing and was instructed by various friends in the recruiting/hiring realm never to mention any kind of disability, btw. So, I didn't feel like I was in a position to tell him that or instruct him to find a conference room and a land line and try again. I still haven't decided if I am going to email the recruiter about this.
I have not heard back, so I assume that it is not going any further. I wish companies would actually contact candidates and let them know the outcome of the phone screen.
Interview Question – The only question I can remember is me asking, "Can you repeat that?" Answer Question
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