I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Slack (New York, NY)
Interview
My interview experience with Slack was excellent! I enjoyed speaking with all of the individuals involved.
Interview process:
1. Recruiter Screening
2. Hiring Manager Interview
3. Chronological Interview
4. Presentation
Recruiter Screening: The recruiter that I worked with was very responsive and provided timely updates. She also helped me prep for the interviews and was available to answer any questions I had.
Hiring Manager: The hiring manager was engaging and showed interest in getting to me as a person. This round was for 45 minutes and was asked questions on topics such as: stakeholder management, cross-functional partnership, collaboration, etc. Make sure you have examples that you can share.
Chronological Interview: I highly recommend prepping well for this round as it is a deep dive of your resume. Mine was scheduled for 90 minutes but can be longer depending on the position. Few questions to think about are: What were some of the challenges from moving position A to position B? what prompted the move? what would your manager say were your strengths and weaknesses? Why Slack?
By the time I moved to the final round, I had accepted another position at my current company so can't share experiences regarding the presentation round.
I also recommend connecting with other CSMs at slack to learn more about their day to day. I was fortunate enough to connect with one and she was extremely helpful in answering all of my questions thoroughly.
Good luck!
I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Slack in Feb 2021
Interview
Applied online through the careers website and was emailed a few weeks later to set up an initial chat with a recruiter. It seemed the the recruiter was fairly new at Slack and couldn't answer questions regarding Slack's engineering teams as well as products/features that I used. It was going well until the recruiter asked about the percentage of time I spent on the backend vs. frontend. Expecting a predominately backend distribution the recruiter quickly told me that he would not be moving forward with me as I told him I was a full stack developer and spent my time equally between both domains.
I would say that this is a poor representation of what I thought Slack was, why even setup an initial chat and screen me as a candidate if you intuition is to hire someone based on their answer of how much time they have spent on a technology? Additionally asking a percentage of how much one works on the backend or frontend does not determine their aptitude of that knowledge. I may spend 50% frontend/50% backend but I definitely am adept at both principles.
Interview questions [3]
Question 1
Describe an API you built and the number of requests it receives per hour.
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Slack in Dec 2020
Interview
1. Recruiter screening (30 min)
2. Chronological interview (60 min): questions starting back at first job out of college
3. Behavioral interview (60 min): how would you develop a product & GTM strategy?
4. Hiring manager interview (30 min): Q&A
5. Panel interview: Prepare and present GTM strategy, answer questions throughout
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
-Define the segment and audience for this product
-What would your manager say your biggest strength and area of opportunity is?