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      Senior Program Manager Interview

      Mar 29, 2013
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      San Francisco, CA
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Easy interview

      Application

      I applied through an employee referral. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Salesforce (San Francisco, CA) in Mar 2013

      Interview

      I contacted someone I know at Salesforce because I noticed that they had several openings that might be of interest. She referred me internally, and I had a phone screen with someone in HR within a few days. They set up a two-person phone screen: one with an individual contributor on the team, and one with the hiring manager. I had been asked up-front to provide deliverables that I had worked on, and I said that I wasn't willing to send them, but I would be willing to show them something from an old project via screen-sharing. The two phone screens focused exclusively on those project deliverables, and both of them were identical. There was no need to have two people phone screen me with identical questions, which was my first red flag. My second red flag was that neither of them gave me an opportunity to ask questions about the position or the company, which shows a lack of consideration for the candidate. I decided to accept the in-person interview to see if it was an improvement. After I accepted the in-person interview, I had another call with the HR person to make sure that I was ready for the in-person interview. The in-person interview wasn't an improvement. It started with a group interview, including a VP who spent the whole time reading email on his iPad. Then we went into 30-minute 1:1 interviews. The 1:1 interviews, with people who would supposedly be my peers, proved to me without a doubt that I didn't want to work there. They asked questions far below my level of expertise, and seemed to have no idea what they would do with someone of my experience. The day wrapped up with a problem-solving exercise that was so basic that I wouldn't even use it for an intern interview. I had made it clear to the HR rep that I would only be interested in moving from my current position if I could see how it was a good career move for me, but none of my interviewees gave me the chance to ask them any questions. Each of them spent a lot of time telling me how great Salesforce is, but all of them gave identical reasons, and none of them were about the actual work that they did or about their career growth. They'd already told me ad nauseam how great Salesforce is during the phone screens, so I was really hoping to understand more about the company and the team. I walked out of the interview certain that I had no interest at all in working for them.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      None of their questions were difficult. The only thing unexpected about the interview process was how little consideration they showed for me as a candidate. Only one of the interviewers, including the hiring manager, gave me the opportunity to ask questions about the team, the position, why they were growing the team, and how I could grow my career there.
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      Feb 6, 2024
      Anonymous employee
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      Positive experience
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      Application

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      Interview questions [2]

      Question 1

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      Question 2

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      Senior Program Manager Interview

      Apr 12, 2023
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      Dallas, TX
      Declined offer
      Positive experience
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      Application

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      Painfully slow and confusing. I didn't know what the next steps were or what to expect. I expected better from Benioff's team and was disappointed in the results. I just wish someone would have followed up with me afterwards. Got automated emails and did not reply to them.

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      Question 1

      Tell me about yourself in 5 words or less
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      Senior Program Manager Interview

      May 11, 2023
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      San Francisco, CA
      Declined offer
      Positive experience
      Average interview

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      I applied through an employee referral. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Salesforce (San Francisco, CA) in Nov 2021

      Interview

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      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      How would you run a strategic, large-scale program?
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