I applied through an employee referral. The process took 3 months. I interviewed at Proofpoint in Sep 2022
Interview
Got put on recruiter list after many phone calls to an internal employee. And now I have waited over 4 months to receive a call from them to start the process.
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I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Proofpoint (Sunnyvale, CA) in Mar 2018
Interview
There were multiple phone screenings with inside level recruiter (not outsourced), in person with manager and assistant manager, peer-level in person, mock-sales presentation with peer-level and management, then final in person interview
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Have you dealt with legal contracts, what size business are you bringing in currently, have you worked with SAAS
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Proofpoint (Sunnyvale, CA) in Jul 2015
Interview
one phone interview followed by an onsite with 3-4 people (sales, manager, director). if you pass that, you have a presentation interview. Presentation is a high level company overview. They will provide you with the slide deck.
Inside Sales applicants have rated the interview process at Proofpoint with 3.3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 67% positive. To compare, the company-average is 44.8% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Inside Sales roles take an average of 39 days to get hired, when considering 3 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 Inside Sales according to 3 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 25%
Drug test: 17%
Group panel interview: 17%
Background check: 17%
One on one interview: 8%
Presentation: 8%
Skills test: 8%
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