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      Head of Sales Business Systems Interview

      4 Nov 2024
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Barcelona
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Personio (Barcelona) in Nov 2024

      Interview

      The recruitment process experience was top notch: super fast, very informative, the opportunity seemed ideal, with the company being the size of company I like, mutual ambitions I was aspiring for, and it both fit my salary expectations as well as what their salary band was, which is not common nowadays... However when I was setup for a follow up call with the hiring manager, the whole situation started to spark some concern. After asking what the role of the hiring manager would be, I was told they would be a "freelancer" acting as the CIO. Even though the job opportunity was for someone quite senior (as I am...) the hiring manager turned out to be someone substantially less experienced than I was in this space (with maybe 3 years of relevant experience, where I have 20+ years, the job spec asks for 8+ and 10+ years of experience on a few key responsibilities).To be clear, I have no expectation for the hiring manager to be someone with a lot more in-depth technical experience than me. However, I could see they were struggling with some of the basic concepts of a Salesforce implementation development lifecycle, and that anybody this "senior" should have been perfectly comfortable discussing, so this raised some red flags. They seemed to struggle to understand how Salesforce as a platform is supposed to operate and where the value is, they struggled to understand the difference between agile and scrum! We went from a job description where several "admins and architects" (that's a broad diaspora...) as well as "program managers" and their teams would be reporting to me, to a situation where even the thought of a couple of small scrum teams were too much to ask for, and something they were aspiring to get to at some point, but not today. I am not sure what the particular situation is with this company, but I am certain their is a huge gap from what the job requirement as described on their "Head of Sales Business Systems" job spec are, and what the reality of what they have going on is. I am not sure what to think, most likely, I would guess, the founders at Personio are either completely fooled by what the capabilities and skills of this "freelancer" are in this space. Someone, whom I assume would have a reasonable set of conflicts of interest between staying engaged and billing vs finding a competent team of people to build out. Alternatively, this is just a bogus posting to virtue signal to your investors that you are growing and maturing. Or it is just the case of a startup with over inflated job titles, but it does seem like an unreasonable space for a company with an $8 billion+ valuation to be playing in.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      How do you manage a situation where the business is asking for both long term and short term enhancements, yet they keep asking for short term enhancements, and complain that long term (strategic enhancements) are not being met.
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