Salesforce Solutions Engineer interview questions

Had several interviews with Solution Engineer Team Managers, Sales Team Managers, and their managers. I Re-interviewed with 1 or 2 of those folks from anywhere from 10 to 30 minutes Intro Chat format, video conferences that were a little more In-depth, to In-Person, get to know you as a human. This phase seemed to be a check box exercise as well to assure my experience / skill-set / personality was in alignment with role. This time was used to make sure I understood the role responsibilities and was still interested. From there I was prepped by my coach / SE Manager and given a case study to prepare and present a 40 min customer demo to a panel of Sales / SEs as the customer. My coach assisted with what to expect, how to prepare, and conducted mock customer discovery call. This phase I considered part of interview to show what its like to work with me from coworker and customers perspective. My coach was very helpful with tips, guidance, and examples on how Salesforce SEs manage demos. He also allowed me to do a dry run presentation for him as well which helped immensely. The demo had attendees via video conference and in-person, it went well from my perspective. All the coaching and tips I really worked hard on remembering and practicing in advance. I received feedback from panel after the demo which was also very helpful and a great way to wrap things up and celebrate completing. I was allowed a Q&A for them too. I had spent so much time with everyone leading up to the event it really gave me a good example of a "day in the life of an SE." This process took place over several weeks and was very time-consuming from from all parties. It was all very thorough and it made a huge impact on the outcome; left to my own vices it would not have been as impactful to the customer had I gone the demo feature/function path I am used to.

2 day interview. I had a case study for which I needed to create a demo and do an elevator pitch. It was a lot of work but you have a lot of resources to help prepare.