Splunk Interview Questions

Application

I applied online. The process took 5 weeks. I interviewed at Splunk (San Jose, CA) in March 2019.

Interview

pre-interview questionnaire, phone screening, hiring manager phone interview, 2 onsite interviews. The interview process was longer than I anticipated, however it was fairly simple and straightforward. I was mostly asked behavioral questions.

Application

I applied online. I interviewed at Splunk.

Interview

Phone screen with recruiter. Set up call with hiring manager, hiring manager no show. Apologized and asked me to reschedule and they never responded after that. Very unprofessional, waste of time.

Interview

HR uncoordinated. I was sent on 6 interviews for a single position that seemed to split into 2 positions. I was asked to meet with 2 more people, to make 8 people total. It was then I decided to withdraw my application.

Application

I applied online. I interviewed at Splunk.

Interview

Call with the recruiter- everything went well and we even spoke about next steps. She mentioned getting back to me in the next week but then I was met with radio silence. None of my 3 follow-up emails to check in if she had any news from the hiring manager were answered. Definitely really unprofessional on their end- and quite a transactional recruiting experience if you ask me.

Application

I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Splunk in January 2020.

Interview

Completely unprofessional. Wasted time on a total of four interviews. Each was about an hour long. Three of those were video interviews which obviously require additional preparation. Dealing with the recruiting team felt clunky; multiple recruiters were involved as they seem to be short staffed for the number of positions which they actively advertise.
The video interviews with members of the Sales team were far from well organized. I dealt with a number of odd issues which reflected poorly on Splunk. Example 1: An indifferent attitude from a poorly selected interviewer. If you are going to depend on peer interviews in the selection process, please train the employees to at least fake their interest in the process. Perhaps providing a list of smart and inquisitive questions might help. Example 2: Viewing an interviewer's nude partner in the background during a video interview streamed from the interviewer's bedroom. Ridiculous. There were several other less than appropriate incidents.

Note to Splunk.....Please spare me the false concern and don't ask me to contact you in response to this review as I've tried numerous times to speak with Splunk's recruiting team to provide/receive feedback to my experience.

Application

I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Splunk in January 2020.

Interview

Intro interview with recruiter
Over phone with hiring manager
5 back to back 45 minute interviews
1 final interview
Never heard back followed up several times didn’t even get the email that says you didn’t get the job to go through all of that and no email or phone call

Application

I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Splunk (Boulder, CO) in January 2020.

Interview

Overall the interview process went really well. It was ambiguous at times about the what the next steps were going to be.

The technical recruiters were a big help on getting me on-boarded as fast and smooth as possible

Application

I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Splunk (San Francisco, CA) in January 2020.

Interview

Phone interview with the manager and then on-site. While on-site met with 8 recruiting coordinators and then the manager. A total of 9 people. The overall process was very unprofessional. The recruiting coordinators didn't look like they were enjoying their time there and didn't do a good job with explaining the work culture in a positive light.

Application

I applied through an employee referral. The process took 3+ months. I interviewed at Splunk in December 2019.

Interview

I was referred to Splunk by a current employee. The recruiter reached out to me the same day to schedule an initial call. Following the initial call, they quickly scheduled three additional interviews including one with the hiring manager. One of the interviews was technical in nature, but it was not too challenging. It consisted of simple Linux questions.

The process continued with a 1-hour on-site panel interview, which consisted of me presenting Splunk (sales pitch and product demonstration). I had about a week to prepare for the interview. I thought the timeline was extremely compressed considering I have a real job with at least 10-hour work days and a family with kids. I ended up asking for an additional week, because I had a work emergency that prevented me from spending any time to prepare. The hiring manager understood, and he/she honored my request.

The panel interview itself wasn’t hard. However, as I mentioned above, I had a short period of time to learn Splunk enough to pitch it and prepare a custom demo. I have been through similar processes. In those instances, I was asked to do a demo of a product that I was already familiar with. After all, I believe the main purpose of such interviews is to evaluate my presentation skills. The product shouldn’t matter. Either way, it was what it was.

They ended up moving forward with a different candidate who already had plenty of Splunk experience. However, they said they were impressed with me and wanted me to talk to a different team. They schedule three additional interviews, including the hiring manager for this team. My last interview was with the Account Executive, who, during the interview, told me that I didn’t have enough experience with the client I would be working with. I had never claimed I did, and they knew that from the beginning. It made absolutely no sense for them to have me take 3 additional hours out of my busy schedule to tell me something that they and I already knew and effectively end the recruitment process.

After the call, I withdrew from the process. Part of the reason was my frustration with the process and other part was my assessment that they were probably going to end the process from their end.

I spent at least 5.5 hours in interviews not including the many more hours I spent preparing, coordinating, and traveling. I do understand that the process requires commitment from both parties. However it is frustrating to end the process feeling like I have wasted all that time.

Interview

The recruiter approached me, we had a phone conversation, she forwards me to a design manager, that I had a presentation to show my work. The recruiter was very not professional and didn't even bother to follow up with me, it's kind an embarrassing for such a company to have people that act like they doing a favor to people who put their time and energy and try for those jobs.

Application

I applied online. The process took 2+ weeks. I interviewed at Splunk (Santa Clara, CA) in November 2019.

Interview

This was the most unprofessional experience I’ve had with an established company.
After I applied they emailed me saying they wanted to set up the phone and technical screw-in calls at the same time. Set up the technical screening but the recruiter couldn’t find time to speak with me till after I already passed the technical.
She sets up a call to go over the on-site with me. She then calls 20 minutes later then we had arranged.
Then I go to the on-site. My first interviewer of the day was over 30 minutes late to a 45 minute interview.
There were 2 positives. The lady who showed me in to the room spent the whole time looking for the missing interview and was super apologetic and one of my interviewers really took the whole working together on a problem thing to heart and made the experience interesting and enjoyable.
In the end they said they decided not to hire anyone.