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Updated May 24, 2012 – Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates.
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Technical Support Specialist at Tableau Software
Posted May 24, 2012
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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 May 2012 (took a day)
I had sent in an application online for their Technical Support Specialist position. Within two days I received an email back wanting to set a time for a phone interview.
When the time came for the recruiter to call me for my phone interview she was 15 minutes late to our phone interview. From that point on the interview felt really rushed and that I was just another person to get through.
The interview questions were based on three areas: networking, databases, and analytical/math questions.
Unfortunately after answering these questions the recruiter told me that I am not a competitive candidate for the job.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Product Consultant at Tableau Software
Posted May 24, 2012
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Feb 2012 in Seattle, WA (took 1 week)
The interview started out with a recorded answering session. I had to record videos for 5 questions on a website. I got a call from the recruiter the same day for a initial phone interview. She explained to me the job requirements and asked me why I was interested. Next I had to do an example for the company to review to see how well I can learn a new product. She called me the next day and scheduled an on-site interview. This company takes the interview very seriously. The on-site interview was 4 hours, involving everyone from the future peers to manager to VP of the division. They really respect their candidates compared to many other tech companies in Seattle area.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, a Presentation and a Skills Test.
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Support at Tableau Software
Posted Mar 21, 2012
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Mar 2012 in Seattle, WA (took 6+ weeks)
I applied for a director-level position. The interview process consisted a total of 6 interviews. 4 phone and 2 in person. Overall, everyone I talked to was mostly positive but the overall theme was that they were suffering from serious growing pains from doubling their size every year for the last 3 years. The growing pains were evident at every stage of the interview process.
The first 3 interviews were mostly about my background, 1 by a recruiter and 2 by the hiring manager and I was invited into their offices for a 1:1 with the hiring manager.
I showed up for my 1:1 interview with the hiring manager a little early but no one seemed to know what I was supposed to be doing there. He was really late (45 minutes) and no one could find him or knew what to do with me. He apologized, he'd been stuck in a meeting and couldn't get out and thought someone had told me.
We talked a lot about my background and how I would position support. He expressed concern that he and I thought too much alike and wanted someone who would be different which was interesting since he did most of the talking and all I did was nod in agreement. He did tell me that they had over 1000 applicants and I was one of 16 they were bringing in to narrow the selection down to 6.
About a week later I got a mail that I had been selected as one of the six they were bringing in for the final rounds of interviews. In a follow-up phone call the hiring manager outlined that the goal was to put together a presentation detailing my "Vision" for how I would build the ideal Support department. There were a number of specific items he wanted covered (What did success and the organization look like and what are the roles) but this was designed to be a "blue sky" exercise to get at my core "values". The second part of the presentation was to develop a 30-60-90 day plan for how I would start. At the end of the call he made the remark "If nothing else, I'll have lots of good ideas to steal".
There was a bunch of confusion about how this presentation was going to be delivered. The recruiting coordinator scheduled me to come in and then followed up the next day to say it was going to be delivered by phone to 3 separate people (one remote, 2 at HQ), one hour each, later that week. They didn't have me send the presentation to anyone so I ended up walking through it 3 separate times for 3 functional areas of the company (Sales, Engineering, and Support (oddly, someone who would ultimately report to me)).
The presentations seemed to go well and I was invited in for the final round of interviews.
I met first with the recruiting coordinator who had me confused with someone else and asked me for a bunch of information I had already provided her via email. She was super nice and felt really bad saying she was super busy. The schedule they sent me from the day before had also changed and they substituted a couple of people.
My first interview was with the EVP of Sales (the hiring managers boss). She apologized that she didn't have a lot of time and wanted to touch the highlights of my presentation. I went through some of my slides on paper (their computer wasn't set up). She asked a couple of questions but it was pretty clear that she wasn't interested in "blue sky" and wanted concrete answers for how I would organize and grow the existing support organization. She thanked me after 45 minutes, apologized that she had to go and excused herself.
My second interview was with a manager from sustaining engineering. She was super nice and really seemed to care about her job and the customers. She asked a ton of questions about how I would work with her group and the importance of collecting good data. We were scheduled for 30 minutes and talked for 40 while we waited for the next person to show up.
At that point the hiring manager came in and told me his boss (that I had met with earlier) had decided I was "too innovative" for Tableau and that she wanted a more traditional enterprise support model. He was super nice about it and let me ask questions about their decision. My only comment was to say that he specifically had asked me not to do that kind of a presentation.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Presentation.
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User Experience Designer at Tableau Software
Posted Feb 26, 2012
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Nov 2011 in Seattle, WA (took 6 weeks)
I applied online and heard back pretty quickly from a recruiter. The first phone interview was with the recruiter. A few days later, I had another phone interview with the hiring manager. He gave me a homework assignment to design an interface for a product they're actually working on which is pretty unethical. Eventually they will wind up using ideas from candidates without compensating them -- they should pick something completely unrelated. I played along, though in hindsight I should have called them on it. I had a third phone interview a week later. Then they flew me out to Seattle to interview in person. There were around five or six interviews with pairs. I thought things went pretty well, but I agree with a previous Glass Door posting about there being a lot of unfounded arrogance there.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Skills Test.
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Customer Support Specialist at Tableau Software
Posted Feb 22, 2012
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Feb 2012 in Seattle, WA (took 2 weeks)
Applied online and took about three weeks to hear back. Scheduled the phone interview with an HR rep. The phone interview consisted of discussing previous work history and a technical portion. The technical portion was broken down into questions about databases, network, and logic.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a Skills Test.
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Software QA at Tableau Software
Posted Feb 7, 2012 — 0 of 1 people found this helpful
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1.0
Very Easy Interview
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Overall Negative Experience
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Received and Declined Offer
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Interviewed Oct 2011 in Seattle, WA (took 4 months)
Applied for a position in October. No response at all. Then four months later there is a sudden rush to begin screening and interviewing. Sorry, I've moved on.
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Operations/Finance at Tableau Software
Posted Jan 2, 2012 — 2 of 6 people found this helpful
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2.0
Easy Interview
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Overall Negative Experience
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Received and Declined Offer
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Interviewed Oct 2011 in Seattle, WA (took 3 days)
Yet another company trotting out tired cliches -- "we are the next Google" "we only hire rock stars" "our IPO is just around the corner" blah blah blah.
I suffered through 3 interviews and the arrogance was just nauseating. Although I got the offer, and absolutely need a job in this terrible economy, I ultimately hd to pass. Certainly, the company has one decent product and $20m in revenues after 5 years. Big whoop, Groupon went to $1b in sales in under one year. That was the next Google; so please y'all no more claiming to be the next Google -- it just makes you sound ridiculous
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Even in this economy, true rock star companies are the ones that realize that a job interview is still very much a two-way street. When you're talking to Rock Star Candidates. Oh yea...
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Group/Panel Interview.
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Product Consultant at Tableau Software
Posted Oct 3, 2011
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2.0
Easy Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Sep 2011 in Seattle, WA (took 2 weeks)
Went to a Tableau Software Open house and mixer and talked to the lead product consultant. They seemed hungry for people and we set up two phone screens: an interview with the HR recruiter and a senior product consultant. Both interviews were pretty easy, and there were no special/trick questions. After that I was given a test answering questions using their software. The test involved some table joins and trend analysis--and the how-to's were all online in their tutorial section. I feel I answered the questions correctly, but it's been two weeks now and I haven't heard from them. I know they were hiring for a position that wasn't open yet so maybe they got distracted.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a Skills Test.
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Product Consultant at Tableau Software
Posted Aug 19, 2011
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed May 2010 in Seattle, WA (took 3 weeks)
I had a phone interview with the HR lady. It was pretty quick, and they e-mailed me some questions. I downloaded their program, played around with it, and answered the questions. They then scheduled an in-person interview at a coffee shop near the office. At this interview, I had to present my answers to them. Afteward, the HR lady called me again for a second interview. She even was nice enough to give me some feedback too. I tried to improve for that next interview, where they sat me down in a room with a laptop and had me answer some technical questions (about HTML, TCP protocol, etc). I didn't have that much knowledge, so I tried my best. In the end I think I waited about a week before getting a call to say I hadn't been selected. I was disappointed, but it was a good experience.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Group/Panel Interview.
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Marketing Intern at Tableau Software
Posted Jul 14, 2011 — 1 of 1 people found this helpful
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2.0
Easy Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Jun 2011 in Seattle, WA (took 4 weeks)
I applied online on a Friday and that Monday got an email for a phone interview set up. Spoke with a recruiter and then 2 days later spoke with another person in the marketing department. The recruiter called me back that day to schedule an in-person interview for that following Monday. The interview with 4 different people. It went more than well, everyone seemed to be very positive and friendly, very relaxed interview. As well the work environment from what I got out of it was very good, but they all seemed incredibly busy and stressed that I would have to be able to multitask and handle working on my own sometimes. The only negative in the process is they told me I would have to speak to the VP who was out of town. They scheduled a time but they never called me (understandable, as I could see how busy everyone seemed and the VP would be calling from Europe, but still kind of a put off). I emailed the recruiter and was informed that I would be interviewed upon the VPs return and would get an update the following week.
Almost 3 weeks later with no response I emailed and they told me that it was a tough decision between me and another, but in the end it went to someone they felt more qualified for the position. No hard feelings towards them at all. As I've said everyone there seemed so nice and communication was stellar until that very end part.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Background Check.
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