I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Proofpoint
Interview
I was recruited by Wombat. The on site interview was to be with 4 people. After arriving I was informed 2 of the 4 had schedule conflicts. Being that my interview was scheduled 5 days prior, couldn’t someone have called me to reschedule?
Prior to the interview I needed to submit an online application and release for a background check. Both required my SS#. I was also required to take a personality test. One would think this is more necessary after the process not before.
I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Proofpoint in Jun 2024
Interview
Interview screening with recruiter (your basic run of the mill, expectations, why here, why now, why this role)
Interview with hiring manager - 45 minutes
Team interview (1 at a time)
Final presentation (hour)
All in all - process took around 2 months
I applied online. The process took 3 months. I interviewed at Proofpoint in Nov 2023
Interview
Very unprofessional hr recruiter. Lacked transparency. Kept me on the sidelines for months without a definitive no until they found someone better. Interviewed with recruiter, hiring manager, solutions architect director, and a current team member. The recruiter would tell me on numerous occasions that ste would update me tomorrow or in a few days with next steps and completely would go dark, and rinse and repeat this strange communication the next week. Why couldn’t she just tell me no or offer some transparency? she told me more than twice the hiring manager was out sick or on vacation and that she had scheduled time to review and would get back to me by set date. She cloud have just been honest and let me know they needed more time to evaluate other candidates but this was never communicated. Three months into the process and I still haven’t gotten a definitive no or an automated rejection email and she’s still leading me on. Its pretty crazy.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Standard sales questions, review methodology and revenue metrics.
Sales applicants have rated the interview process at Proofpoint with 3.2 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 50% positive. To compare, the company-average is 44.8% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Sales roles take an average of 46 days to get hired, when considering 6 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Proofpoint overall takes an average of 29 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Proofpoint as a Sales according to 6 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 25%
Group panel interview: 20%
Presentation: 15%
One on one interview: 15%
Skills test: 10%
IQ intelligence test: 5%
Drug test: 5%
Background check: 5%
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