I applied online. The process took 4 days. I interviewed at Synack in Nov 2018
Interview
I applied through their website and got contacted the next day to schedule a phone interview.
First half of the interview consisted of hearing a little more about the company, the other half we spoke about me.
I noticed how the interviewer didn't want to continue with the interview within the first minute. There was awkward silence, no other questions for me besides "tell me about yourself"...then was asked twice if I had any more questions. I was at least expecting her to say if I would be considered or not!
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Synack (Redwood City, CA)
Interview
Good interview, also had a good understanding of the position I was interviewing for. Everyone that interview me was very understanding as well as answered any questions that I had throughout the interview process.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
There really wasn't any difficult questions. It was a pretty standard interview process for the SDR position. Why sales? Being a fresh grad why do you think you want sales? Be ready to answer that question for any entry level sales position you interview for.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Synack
Interview
I didn't make it far in the interview process here...Just a phone screen. Almost every interview I do I get an on-site, but it's been tough lately unfortunately. I went through a recruiter who then hooked me up with a phone screen. I thought the phone screen went well, but I think maybe they preferred some other applicants who had some SaaS experience already. Sales skills are easily transferable though even if you don't have SaaS experience. I did ask about their competitors and they were very vague on their competitors (like they didn't have specific names of start-ups). When I mentioned Darktrace, a start-up that has advertisements all over including in the Economist and where I was invited for an on-site but declined, she hadn't even heard of that. While she understood her own product, seemed to lack knowledge of competitors which I thought was odd... Interviewer was about 20 minutes late to the call, but we had a good conversation so I wouldn't dock points for just that. There was probably just more competition than I realized, so there wasn't much I could do about it even if I thought I had a pretty good phone screen.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Just mainly about my background, what is the role, etc, how my skills are transferrable to the role. I put the interview was "very easy" but I didn't get an on-site so maybe it wasn't as easy as I thought haha.