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Initial interviewer is the team member and is more tactical. Describes the role in detail but also uses the interview to gain an initial impression to send back as feedback. Mostly, is this person a good fit. Typically everyone interviewing has technical experience but they are looking for someone who can sell. Need to have good presentation on camera and be personal as you will be helping sales but also doing demos alongside their technical partners to gain buy in. Wants to know what you’ve worked on before. It needs to be relevant to their own workstreams in the modern data stack. I.E. cloud data migrations. Fivetran -> dbt -> Snowflake -> Tableau/PowerBI How do you keep up with industry trends? -> (Filters out tech geeks) How do you identify a client’s unknown unmet needs? -> wants to know how sales savvy you are, there is a bunch of stuff online about this but it’s basically who your main vs edge users are and if you zoom in on them or broadly measure them. How do you handle scope creep? Describe the initial discovery process -> this is actually mainly needed to gain their confidence but also listen to their problem. Final interview is a project challenge, which can sometimes be open ended: discovery scoping exercise, either scenario based or something you previously worked on. “Here’s what we heard…” “Here’s what you want done…” “Here’s what the proposed solution looks like…” “Here’s how we are going to get here with the timeline, resources and costs”. They provide a slide deck which you update w the relevant information . Presentation is to a panel comprised of sales team member, delivery leader, an SE, and occasionally a non technical person too.
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Solutions Engineer

Interviewed at phData

3.9★
Oct 12, 2023

Initial interviewer is the team member and is more tactical. Describes the role in detail but also uses the interview to gain an initial impression to send back as feedback. Mostly, is this person a good fit. Typically everyone interviewing has technical experience but they are looking for someone who can sell. Need to have good presentation on camera and be personal as you will be helping sales but also doing demos alongside their technical partners to gain buy in. Wants to know what you’ve worked on before. It needs to be relevant to their own workstreams in the modern data stack. I.E. cloud data migrations. Fivetran -> dbt -> Snowflake -> Tableau/PowerBI How do you keep up with industry trends? -> (Filters out tech geeks) How do you identify a client’s unknown unmet needs? -> wants to know how sales savvy you are, there is a bunch of stuff online about this but it’s basically who your main vs edge users are and if you zoom in on them or broadly measure them. How do you handle scope creep? Describe the initial discovery process -> this is actually mainly needed to gain their confidence but also listen to their problem. Final interview is a project challenge, which can sometimes be open ended: discovery scoping exercise, either scenario based or something you previously worked on. “Here’s what we heard…” “Here’s what you want done…” “Here’s what the proposed solution looks like…” “Here’s how we are going to get here with the timeline, resources and costs”. They provide a slide deck which you update w the relevant information . Presentation is to a panel comprised of sales team member, delivery leader, an SE, and occasionally a non technical person too.

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