Sales Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Gong with 2.9 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 43% positive. To compare, the company-average is 67.5% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Sales Engineer roles take an average of 12 days to get hired, when considering 7 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Gong overall takes an average of 23 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Gong as a Sales Engineer according to 7 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 44%
One on one interview: 44%
Skills test: 11%
Here are the most commonly searched roles for interview reports -
I got connected with a 3rd party recruiter who did a quick screening call and then was connected with a member of the Gong recruiting team who set up a 45 minute interview with the leader of Sales Engineering. It was clearly communicated to me that I was moving forward and those next steps were described to me. A few days later I was informed I wasn't moving forward in the process. At first, this seemed to be a professional and organized recruitment process, however, this leaders inability to be honest misled me entirely and left me with an unprofessional taste in my mouth.
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What is your role in the security portion of your current sales process.
First of all, thank you for your time and your consideration of Gong- we really appreciate it. I also want to thank you for sharing this candid feedback with us as it gives us a window into how to better set expectations in our interviews and how to communicate more clearly. We will definitely sync internally on your experience and work on improving the experience and our communication in the future.
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Gong
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The interview is labeled technical, yet focuses entirely on sales workflow processes. It lacks real-world context and fails to reflect a realistic, end-to-end sales opportunity relevant to actual customer scenarios.
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Open ended questions with zero context. Ex. "What objects in a CRM are important to a customer?"
I applied online. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Gong
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Interviewer came on and immediately struck me as a glorified account executive, guy didn't look like he had a technical bone in his body. His eyes were glazing over like his manager had a gun to his head off camera. Proceeded to ask me "why gong" when I work in a very specialized, well taken care of, high net worth sector they're trying to recruit for. That's not how this works at this level. He should've been trying to sell me on Gong, instead he wanted me to sell him on me, that's just not how this works at this level. He basically couldn't ask me any questions about the industry they're targeting, I knew leagues more than him.
Meanwhile, I met a former Gong'er at the park (holding his new born baby) that quit with nothing lined up because he said the culture was abysmal. Yikes.
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Barely asked anything, they were hiring for a very specific vertical and it was clear within 5 minutes I knew 100x more about the use case, compliance requirements, and procurement process for the industry than the interviewer. If this is their standard process for recruiting, they will be hiring from the bottom of the barrel.
I applied online. I interviewed at Gong (Austin, TX) in Jul 2022
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Straight forward screening process. Typical questions you would expect of an SE. Growing fast and appeared to be asking all the right things in the process.
Having some experience in their sector is helpful.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Do you consider yourself more technical or more business oriented as a SE.