I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Slack (Melbourne) in Jan 2022
Interview
Process was very well organised at first. I received a call from a recruiter who arranged an interview with the department head. Interview went well and I was successfully through to the next round. Went through 2 more rounds until a fourth round, which was a presentation. Prepared for 5-6 hours. It wasn't until this round that the direct hiring manager was on the call - I could tell they had not been included in the process up until this point, and I was immediately on the back foot.
I was told afterwards, in very brief feedback from recruiter, that I had not properly demonstrated how I would train enterprise clients. I was not successful, and tried to follow up with hiring manager but got no response.
Fair enough that I didn't get an offer, but even more annoyingly I was not given any follow-up feedback to improve for future opportunities with other companies. I would not recommend devoting too much time preparing for interviews at Slack, as in my experience, they do not seem to value the time of their candidates.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How would you prepare for cultural differences when training?
How would your past experiences prepare you to train enterprise clients?
I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Slack (New York, NY) in Jan 2020
Interview
This was a normal interview process. Phone screen, then technical phone screen. I didn't do great at the the technical phone screen, and got rejected a couple days after it was completed.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Why is javascript a good usecase of the pub/sub model?
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Slack (Chicago, IL) in Nov 2021
Interview
High level call with initial recruiter (30 min), more detailed call with a sr. recruiter (30 min), call with direct manager (45 min), final call with direct manager and VP (90 min).
First call with recruiters were going over your background / past experiences. Very high level.
The second call with a senior recruiter was a little more in depth about your experiences. Align on comp, set expectations etc.
The call with the manager dug more into why sales, talk to me about your sales approach etc. Walked through past deals
The final interview was a deep dive of my resume going all the way back to college. There was a 20 minute mock discovery call. Do your homework and come prepared!!!!
I worked with a recruiter out of Texas and she couldn't have been better! She went out of her way to take my calls that always went over time, gave me great feedback, and prepared me for all of my interviews especially the mock disco call. She was always available for me via call/text and made the entire process very enjoyable.
There were a lot of steps in the process but they were able to work around my schedule and we got this done fast.
I enjoyed every single one of my conversations and I cannot wait to be apart of the team!
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Know your resume up and down
Why did you get into sales
Be able to talk about bigger deals and how you won them