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Updated Apr 4, 2012 – Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates.
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Technical Support at Jive Software
Posted Apr 4, 2012
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Jan 2012 in Portland, OR (took a day)
Applied on their website, found the job via Craigslist. Interviewer was professional and polite, but was fairly light on technical questions. He did not seem pleased when I asked him how the company was handling their transition from private to public, and how they planned to counter competition from industry giants like SalesForce and Google. I feel as though those are relevant questions to ask a smaller company that is, while not quite a start-up, still getting momentum behind their name and product.
They also never followed up in any way. I understand if I was not what they were looking for, but I actually emailed about a week after the interview, politely asking if they had made a decision or had any updates. I've worked for both small companies and startups, so I do undertand the frenetic pace that can be almost ever constant and day-to-day, but to not take 30 seconds to reply to a direct inquiry just strikes me as a bit inconsiderate.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Senior Release Engineer at Jive Software
Posted Jan 26, 2012
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2.0
Easy Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Declined Offer
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Interviewed Jan 2012 in Palo Alto, CA (took 2 weeks)
Applied for the role and received a call from Jive's technical recruiter 4 days later. The tech recruiter asked me some very basic questions mostly why I was looking for another job and for a summary of my experience as a build/release engineer. Two days later I heard from the hiring manager who proceeded to ask some basic technical questions about being a release engineer and what type of experience I had with Jenkins as a continuous integration server. I went in for a face to face interview and met with 4 people the hiring manager included. Overall the interview process was fairly easy. They were very interested in how I would approach continuous delivery in a distributed development environment. The people I met with were very friendly and easy going. I didn't really feel like it was an interview at all.
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Reason for Declining
Although Jive has a decent of benefits their base salaries are below average for Bay Area standards. I felt that they needed to offer something on par with the rest of the market because quite frankly stock options just don't cut it anymore.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.
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Software Engineer at Jive Software
Posted Dec 2, 2011
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2.0
Easy Interview
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Oct 2011 in Palo Alto, CA (took 5 days)
Contacted by a recruiter via LinkedIn. We had a 30 minute chat on the phone where she asked basic behavioural and career goals questions. Then she went over their open positions and what she felt I would be a good fit for.
She then sent me a technical test to complete. I completed it within the time frame we agreed upon. After not hearing back for a week, I sent a follow-up e-mail. Never heard back.
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I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a Skills Test.
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Product Marketing at Jive Software
Posted Oct 28, 2011
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2.0
Easy Interview
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Jun 2009 in Palo Alto, CA (took 4+ weeks)
One of their colleagues submitted my resume to HR. HR contacted me and set up the phone screen. He told me they were growing really fast so they needed to hire multiple people. We proceeded through the interview where he asked me typical questions for this sort of job - not very difficult. The hiring manager said he'd get back to me about next steps (face to face meeting). About a week later, I got feedback from the recruiter. He told me that hiring manager who said that my answers were "correct", but since he had so many candidates to choose from, he decided to pass. Ironically, the position stayed open for a very VERY long time and he finally filled it.
The position does pop up once in a while, but every time I see it, it makes me wonder what exactly does this hiring manager truly want.
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I got the interview through an Employee Referral and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Senior QA Engineer at Jive Software
Posted Jul 14, 2011
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2.0
Easy Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed May 2011 in Palo Alto, CA (took 2 days)
HR was pretty quick in scheduling and following up after interviews. I started with an on-site consisting of 3 1:1 interviews and one panel interview. The technical depth was fairly low, hardly any whiteboard coding and no programming test that included a laptop. The second interview day (also an on-site) went a little deeper technically but still remained shallow and was more about general quality engineering approaches than actual coding.
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Negotiation Details
There was not a lot of room for negotiation and the salary hierarchies are overall not exceptional (which can be expected for a pre-IPO start-up). The current position of the company is promising which was the convincing factor.
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I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview and a Group/Panel Interview.
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Product Manager at Jive Software
Posted Jan 19, 2010 — 2 of 2 people found this helpful
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Jan 2010 in Palo Alto, CA (took 3 weeks)
I had an initial interview via a personal introduction, and then a day of interviews with the product team. Mixed thoughts - some were very impressive, some less so. I haven't had a follow-up feedback session yet, but my impression from the outset was that other late-stage candidates were more senior and likely had more bigger-co experience and less entrepreneurial background. Makes sense for Jive, as it's a larger startup selling almost exclusively to enterprise customers. Not a particularly startup-like environment, but an interesting company.
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The interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.
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Hosting Operations Engineer at Jive Software
Posted Dec 21, 2009
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Dec 2009 in Portland, OR (took 1+ week)
Jive hands out this technical test after you talk to HR. THey ask a light number of behavioral interviewing questions. generally hr just feels you out then get you to look at the test. if you don't do well on the test you'll just get an impersonal rejection. so i'd sugget trying to get an inperson interview without doing the test.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a Skills Test.
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