I applied in-person. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Salesforce (San Francisco, CA) in Jun 2019
Interview
Two phone screens then 2 onsite panel interviews, each with 4 people. Talked to 10 people total over the course of 3 weeks. After final interview round I was informed of my offer 3 days afterwards.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 6 months. I interviewed at Salesforce (Bellevue, WA) in Feb 2018
Interview
I applied to this role at their Bellevue, WA office. It is probably one of the slowest/worst Interview process I have experienced in my 20+ years career. The interview was not hard at all. If you have a decent idea about running a program management function at cloud scale, you should do just fine. What really baffled me is that company that for a company that talks so much about values, they did not even have a decency of closing the interview loop with a decision. I probably have written over half a dozen emails between February and April. They responded to first few saying they are still talking to other candidates, and they just stopped responding. It is quite disrespectful to a candidate, who probably has spent a ton of time preparing for the interview and spent the whole day in their premises talking to the people, that they do not offer a basic courtesy of a decision. To be honest, I am totally ok with a no-hire decision and I understand that as a hiring team majority of your decisions are going be no-hire decisions. As a candidate, I know that my statistical odds are very low for most of the jobs I interview for. But please have some respect for the people who put so much effort to go through the process.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
I won't disclose the specifics because I signed NDA. But be prepared for questions that are critical to your role - things such as working under competing priorities, team challenges, high level distributed systems architecture etc.,
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Salesforce (San Francisco, CA) in Mar 2018
Interview
The interview process was quite well organized. After a call with the recruiter and one phone screen with hiring manager, there were 2 rounds of onsite interviews. Recruiting team was extremely prompt and helpful. They were very open to flexing the schedule of the interviews based on my timeline. The recruiter that was my primary point of contact was very helpful (even gave my insights into prepping for the interviews), kept in touch throughout the process and responded to all my questions very quickly. Overall, the process was quite smooth and the recruiting team stayed engaged throughout which was amazing.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Describe a time when Product & Engineering leads were not on the same page which led to conflicting priorities and how you helped get things back on track?