I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Glassdoor
Interview
You have a initial phone interview with the internal recruiter. This is about a 30 min conversation where they run through your background and why you're interested in the role. Then meet in person with SDR managers and a senior SDR. These are 30 min interviews each and they ask you questions surrounding your background and your interest in the role and sales.
I applied online. I interviewed at Glassdoor (Chicago, IL) in Jun 2017
Interview
I submitted my resume through a job posting on Glassdoor of all things. Within a week I was contacted by a recruiter to schedule a phone screening. The call was light and informative. Just wanted to gain a little bit more about my background to ensure a proper fit for the role. This was followed up by an in-person interview at Glassdoor Chicago 2 weeks later. This round consisted of two 30 min interviews with managers. One was remote and the other was in-person. Here they asked more behavioral questions and wanted to learn even more about my situation and experience. This was a great opportunity to learn more about the position and see the actual office. The next step was a discovery sales call. This was the hardest part of the process. The sales call was conducted remote on my computer and I had 30 min to conduct a role play discovery sales call with 2 buyers from a prospect for Glassdoor. This stage was tough but a great exercise to see if you can handle the day to day of an AE. I highly recommend doing your homework for this stage. After the pitch, I heard back from HR about 3 days later and they decided to move me forward to the final stage of the process which was with the director of sales. This was another remote interview on my computer for 30 min. This round was much like the 2nd round in-person interview. They truly are assessing if you are a good fit and it is one last opportunity to sell yourself. This round went well and I received a call later that afternoon with an offer.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What are 3 words your co-worker would use to describe you?
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Glassdoor
Interview
Telephone interviews with the recruiter, hiring manager who is the senior director of brand and product marketing, and the VP of products. This was followed by an on-site interview of just one hour with the senior director and the VP of products.
They seem to have undergone a lot of turnover in the product marketing organization, and their salesforce seems to be very young with a lot of churn. The interviewers were very polite and open, but I came away with the idea they have no idea what the B2B strategy is going to be. They asked me a series of hypothetical questions of what I would do at each stage of the hiring lifecycle to improve the product, and then focused the question on just a specific part and told me answer it. However it seemed like they were not even focused on that part of the hiring lifecycle, yet seem to give me negative marks for answering the question they asked. If that was never part of the strategy, then why waste interview questions on focusing on the part of a strategy that they were never going to carry out? And so, the feedback was that they were looking for someone with a different way of dressing product-market fit, the hiring manager thanked me for coming in and hoped that I had a good view of the Golden gate Bridge as I drove over. They also seem to have a strange organizational structure. The hiring manager is in charge of brand, but it also hiring a VP to be in charge of brand. They also have new VP of product in charge of the consumer oriented products. I was also supposed to meet with their CMO in person, which never ended up happening. They were pretty open and honest with me that they had suffered a lot of nutrition in the product marketing department, and I now understand why. Unfortunately I don't see things changing based on my experience. I do hope glass door can somehow continue to monetize their operations because I am an avid user of the site and find it extremely useful.
Thanks for taking the time to share your interview experience since it helps us improve.
The intention behind our questions was not to have you attempt to solve or help define our B2B product strategy. It was to examine the ways in which you'd go about assessing a business and the kinds of tactics you'd deploy in determining where the opportunity might be. We aim to be transparent here at Glassdoor as we did in sharing our challenges with you during the interview process, and we're excited about what the future holds.
Best of luck in your search!