I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Qualtrics in Oct 2021
Interview
I went for 2 interviews and on both occasion was rejected. For the 2nd most recent interview I completed till the final round and was rejected. It was a good experience from recruiter, hiring manager and peer interview. My only gripe here is that I was only given the standard response that "...We have decided to pursue other candidates for the role." and no one reached out to me personally given the good time I had invested and communicated with everyone.
It was unpleasant interview experience with the head of the region and the pre sales engineer. It was 1 hour of non stop questions with the head of the region and left me 0 minutes to ask question. For the Tacos interview by the pre-sales engineer, 100% of the time he did not even bother to look into the camera, no smiles and was just there to ask me questions and grade me. For a behavioural assessment I really questioned the contradictory juxtaposition I was in.
I am not going to comment on their process but there are a lot more to a candidate than psycho-analysis and a firing squad of questions and to attract more talent they would look into such process (especially given their "engagement" platform should be enabled to ensure such assessment don't slip under the rug).
Overall Qualtrics is a good company with efforts to better overall engagement, diversity, etc. etc. However there are room for further improvements and I hope they will take such feedback in consideration and to not undermine talent that they have pursued as early as in the recruiting evaluation.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Tell me about your current role.
How do you approach to meet your sales quota.
What was stopping you from expanding on your sales activity to get more volume.
Tell me about a time where you had to go above and beyond your role to solve a problem.
What was the most difficult thing you had to do and what did you learn from that episode.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Qualtrics (New York, NY)
Interview
The interview process is conversational and centered on past experience rather than hypothetical or purely interest-based questions. Interviewers prioritize real-world examples, probing into specific projects, decisions, and outcomes to assess practical skills, problem-solving ability, and impact.
Still going through the process. Was headhunted by someone who I would be working alongside, who thinks I might fit the role, but I am more of an entrepreneur than sales, even though I did sales in Biotech in my early career.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Tell me about a time you personally did a strategic sale and how much did it help your customer's metrics?
Useless company put me through 4 rounds out of 5 after pumping me up about how great my experience was. I then get a rejection email from a no reply address. I call the female recruiter and ask why I didn't progress to the final round roleplay if the feedback was universally positive.
She pauses then says 'we have a better candidate with better experience'. I asked 'what kind of experience?' She replied 'he worked for us in Dublin'.
Horrible, lying, gaslighting company. Customers can achieve the same outcome with Surgery Monkey plus an LLM.
