My process was a recruiter phone screen, two 30-min interviews with team members, a take home assessment, and a 1-hour presentation of the take home exercise. The interviewers felt incredibly robotic and the conversations did not feel conversational at all. I left each interview feeling pretty unsure and like I couldn't connect with any of the people. One interviewer specifically liked to question every one of my responses and I'm not sure if she was just trying to understand something better but it made me feel a little attacked.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Tell me about yourself.
What are your strengths and weaknesses?
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 6 weeks. I interviewed at Verkada (San Mateo, CA) in Mar 2023
Interview
I first got a reach out on LinkedIn from one of the team leads then we briefly chatted about the opportunity. I expressed my interest in moving on to interviews and they scheduled an interview with a director of the group. After 1 week, they gave me a modeling test to complete and scheduled half day of on-site interviews a week after, when I met with the rest of the team. Thought I did great on the model and had great conversation with all, but they ghosted me for a week, until I followed up twice. Then they finally scheduled another round of zoom with the director I had talked with, so I did it, but heard nothing again afterwards. HR kept saying the team was busy and will get back to me as soon as possible. However, they never follow up unless I ask. I finally told them that I have a competing offer and the HR immediately responded within the day and rejected me saying that team doesn't have headcount. Honestly not sure why they were wasting time and resources to interview people just to not have capacity on the team. Feels very disorganized in general.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1. A sales scenario and some problem solving questions 2. Consulting case questions 3. Model walk-through and some mental math questions
I applied through university. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Verkada (San Mateo, CA) in Jun 2022
Interview
Initial interview began with a phone screen. Basic questions about my background and interest. Next was 2 zoom interviews with Directors on the team, each supposed to be 30 mins. One was all behavioral, the other was a pricing case. The guy who led the case kept asking questions and kept me on for an hour. After that, they had me complete a take-home case to build a sales planning model and they flew me out to the office in San Mateo. Total cost ~$1200 that they covered. Interviewed with 8 people, co-founder and sales ops VP / directors, managers, etc. They had me present my model. Interviews ranged from case type interviews, to behaviorals, to random questions about probability, critical thinking, etc.
Waited a week, recruiter called and left a voicemail. I called back in 10 mins. No answer. Had to wait 2 more days for the guy to call me back to tell me that I was rejected.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
If you had a circle of 100 chickens and they can either turn left or right, 50% chance, how many chickens get hit?
What are the benefits of our pricing strategy?
Behavioral questions - tell me about a time you used data, were operational, etc.
