Sourcing Manager Interview Questions

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How would you go about identifying and sourcing high-potential founders? What tools and channels do you typically use for sourcing? Can you share an example of a time you successfully built a pipeline from scratch? How do you assess founder potential, especially in non-traditional backgrounds?
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Sourcing Manager

Interviewed at Antler

3.9
Jul 23, 2025

How would you go about identifying and sourcing high-potential founders? What tools and channels do you typically use for sourcing? Can you share an example of a time you successfully built a pipeline from scratch? How do you assess founder potential, especially in non-traditional backgrounds?

1) Tell me an example how do you negotiate a SaaS contract, what's the typical size of the contract you negotiated. 2) What's your negotiation style and what's a typical sourcing process? 3) What's your management style. 4) How to convince a stake holder (IT/Datacenter team) to follow your supplier/negotiation strategy? 5) What's the difference between indirect and direct sourcing? 6) How to negotiate Microsoft contract 7) Do you have data center contract negotiation experience? 8) What motivates you to go to work. How does this role rewards you?
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Manager, Technology Sourcing

Interviewed at LinkedIn

3.8
Jun 2, 2016

1) Tell me an example how do you negotiate a SaaS contract, what's the typical size of the contract you negotiated. 2) What's your negotiation style and what's a typical sourcing process? 3) What's your management style. 4) How to convince a stake holder (IT/Datacenter team) to follow your supplier/negotiation strategy? 5) What's the difference between indirect and direct sourcing? 6) How to negotiate Microsoft contract 7) Do you have data center contract negotiation experience? 8) What motivates you to go to work. How does this role rewards you?

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