I applied through a recruiter. The process took 5 days. I interviewed at Salesforce in Aug 2010
Interview
Phone call with recruiter to determine qualifications.
In person meeting with two managers.
They determined that the sale was more "transactional" and that my experience was more "relationship" oriented.
I agree, it wasn't a good fit. They followed up with a call to share that news.
Interestingly, they are still looking 6 months later...it doesn't seem like they hired anyone.
Seems to me they could have saved me a trip and themselves some time. My resume clearly showed I was not a transactional sales person.
I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Salesforce (San Francisco, CA) in Dec 2009
Interview
Inside recruiter contacted me and set-up a date & time to talk. He didn't keep the commitment to call me and I had to call him to remind him.
My feeling is that they do interview without having a specific job in mind. Even though I applied to a sr. acct. mgr. position.
The process for the interview as described by the inside recruiter is ardous. After talking with the hiring manager, his/her manager you must do a presentation to a group of people?!
I didn't come away from this phone interview with a positive feeling about salesforce.com. The attitude I felt was "we're a great company and we don't need you".
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
It would be that the inside recruiter sent me follow-up questions to answer as he had to get off the phone.
The follow-up questions were ones he had already asked me? Hey, are you listening?