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Field Sales Representative Interview Questions

1

Tell me about a time you created strong partnerships (this was a result of the previous question?

Behavioral

2

Tell me about a time you created strong partnerships.

Behavioral

3

Tell me about a time you failed. How did you deal with the situation?

Behavioral

4

Tell me about a time you had to be very strategic in order to meet all your top priorities.

Behavioral

5

Tell me about a time you had to work with a difficult internal partner and how you won them over?

Behavioral

6

Tell me about a time you made a difficult decision and how you knew it was the right solution (probe on how they evaluated the options, if they received input, what data they reviewed, etc.)

Behavioral

7

Tell me about a time you needed to get information from someone who wasn�t very responsive. What did you do?

Behavioral

8

Tell me about a time you set a goal for yourself. How did you go about ensuring that you would meet your objective?

Behavioral

9

Tell me about a time you took a big risk and it failed. What did you learn? What would you do differently?

Behavioral

10

Tell me about a time you were dissatisfied in your work. What could have been done to make it better?

Behavioral

11

Tell me about a time you were involved in a big deal, how did you position your product? What was the result?

Behavioral

12

Tell me about a time you were under a lot of pressure. What was going on, and how did you get through it?

Behavioral

13

Tell me about the first job you�ve ever had. What did you do to learn the ropes?

Behavioral

14

The CIO is worried about data residency issues? how do they share data today then?

Behavioral

15

The CIO is worried about data residency issues? How do they share data today with them?

Behavioral

16

We all make mistakes we wish we could take back. Tell me about a time you wish you�d handled a situation differently with a colleague.

Behavioral

17

What is a big deal you did?

Open-ended

18

What steps would you take to solve a complex problem?

Open-ended

19

What three things are you working on to improve your overall effectiveness?

Open-ended

20

What three things you are you working on to improve your overall effectiveness?

Open-ended

21

When you�re working with a large number of customers, it�s tricky to deliver excellent service to them all. How do you go about prioritizing your customers� needs?

Open-ended

22

How did you win the deal?

Open-ended

23

How do you align the needs of the customer and grow the GCP business at the same time?

Open-ended

24

How do you conduct territory account planning?

Open-ended

25

How do you convince customers to adopt mobile?

Open-ended

26

How do you increase the number of free trial clients to paid clients?

Open-ended

27

How do you manage your top accounts?

Open-ended

28

How do you qualify a deal?

Open-ended

29

How how you worked with tech resources in the past? How do you utilize them?

Open-ended

30

How much of a team player are you?

Open-ended

31

How would you approach a potential new customer that is small differently from a large company?

Open-ended

32

Structure of the deal?

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33

Tell me about a time you created strong partnerships (this was a result of the previous question)?

Behavioral

34

Tell me about a time you had a difficult teammate? How did you work with that?

Behavioral

35

Tell me about how you work a deal?

Behavioral

36

What do you do when your top accounts both have critical same day deadlines?

Open-ended

37

What do you know about G Suite?

Open-ended

38

What is a big deal you did? Details.. Walk me through it...

Open-ended

39

What is software infrastructure?

Open-ended

40

What is the most efficient way to qualify opportunity so we don't waste resources?

Behavioral

41

What would be your advice for Google if they are considering to build a new data centre, whether to build or to lease?

Open-ended

42

Why Google

Open-ended

43

Why Google?

Open-ended

44

You can invest in 3 google products. which 3, why those 3, and what would you do to improve them?

Open-ended

45

You're asked to join a meeting where you know nothing about the topic and everyone is more senior than you, how do you participate and lead?

Open-ended

46

An existing customer wants to purchase additional services/features what steps do you take?

Open-ended

47

An existing customer to purchase additional services/features?

Open-ended

48

Describe a long-term project that you managed. How did you keep everything moving along in a timely manner?

Behavioral

49

Describe a time when it was especially important to make a good impression on a client. How did you go about doing so?

Behavioral

50

Describe a time when you had to interact with a difficult client. What was the situation, and how did you handle it?

Behavioral

51

Describe a time when you struggled to build a relationship with someone important. How did you eventually overcome that?

Behavioral

52

Describe a time when you were the resident technical expert. What did you do to make sure everyone was able to understand you?

Behavioral

53

Give me an example of a time when you did not meet a client�s expectations. What happened, and how did you attempt to rectify the situation?

Behavioral

54

Give me an example of a time when you had to explain something fairly complex to a frustrated client. How did you handle this delicate situation?

Behavioral

55

Give me an example of a time when you had to think on your feet in order to delicately extricate yourself from a difficult or awkward situation.

Behavioral

56

Give me an example of a time when you were able to successfully persuade someone to see things your way at work.

Behavioral

57

Give me an example of a time you faced a conflict while working on a team. How did you handle that?

Behavioral

58

Give me an example of a time you managed numerous responsibilities. How did you handle that?

Behavioral

59

Give me an example of a time you were able to be creative with your work. What was exciting or difficult about it?

Behavioral

60

How do you make sure everyone understands what you need from a technical perspective?

Open-ended

61

How do you work discovery?

Open-ended

62

How do you work with a difficult internal employee?

Open-ended

63

How have you worked with tech resources in the past? How do you utilize them?

Open-ended

64

How will the data help you identify the solution

Open-ended

65

How will you help your friend open a bike shop?

Open-ended

66

Multi year deal - C Suite relationships?

Open-ended

67

Relationship selling. Big deal - you got involved with CXO - how did you position your product? How did that process work? How did you win the deal?

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68

Sometimes it�s just not possible to get everything on your to-do list done. Tell me about a time your responsibilities got a little overwhelming. What did you do?

Behavioral

69

Talk about a time when you had to work closely with someone whose personality was very different from yours.

Behavioral

70

Tell me about a challenge you had with a teammate?

Behavioral

71

Tell me about a program you were involved in where the end result ended up having a huge impact across pasrentire organization?

Behavioral

72

Tell me about a successful presentation you gave and why you think it was a hit.

Behavioral

73

Tell me about a time when you had to rely on written communication to get your ideas across to your team.

Behavioral

74

Tell me about a time when you made sure a customer was pleased with your service.

Behavioral

75

Tell me about a time when you worked under close supervision or extremely loose supervision. How did you handle that?

Behavioral

76

Tell me about a time a customer wanted one thing, but you felt they needed something else. How did you approach the situation, what were your actions and what was the end result?

Behavioral

77

Tell me about a time that you strongly disagreed with your manager on something you deemed to be very important to the business. What was it about and how did you handle it?

Behavioral

78

Tell me about a time you were trying to understand a problem on your team and you had to go down several layers to figure it out. Who did you talk with and what information proved most valuable? How did you use that information to help solve the problem?

Behavioral

79

What company should we acquire in order to broaden the Google Cloud scope?

Open-ended

80

What type of enterprise contracts have you done?

Open-ended

81

Describe a challenging problem or situation in which the usual approach was not going to work. Why were you unable to take the usual approach? What alternative approach did you take? Was it successful?

Behavioral

82

Provide me an example of a time when you pushed the existing boundaries beyond what was normal and expected for your space and you explored new territory?

Behavioral

83

Give an example of a creative idea you had that proved really difficult to implement. What was the idea and what made it difficult to implement? Was it successful?

Behavioral

84

Give an example of a time where you were not able to meet a commitment to a team member. What was the commitment and what prevented you from meeting it? What was the outcome and what did you learn from it?

Behavioral

85

Give an example of a tough or critical piece of feedback you received. What was it and what did you do about it?

Behavioral

86

Give an example of when you had to make an important decision and had to decide between moving forward or gathering more information. What did you do? What information is necessary for you to have before acting?

Behavioral

87

Give an example where you refused to compromise your standards around quality/customer service, etc. Why did you feel so strongly about the situation? What were the consequences? The result?

Behavioral

88

Give me a situation in which it took you asking why five times to get to the root cause.

Behavioral

89

Give me an example of a significant professional failure. What led you to making the wrong decision? What did you learn from this situation?

Behavioral

90

Give me an example of a time when you challenged the notion that something had to be done a certain way because it has always been done that way?

Behavioral

91

Give me an example of an idea you had that was strongly opposed. Why was there so much resistance? How did you handle the negative feedback?

Behavioral

92

Give me an example of how you have changed the direction or view of a specific function/department and helped them embrace a new way of thinking? Why was a change needed?

Behavioral

93

Give me an example of when you have to make an important decision in the absence of good data because there just wasn�t any. What was the situation and how did you arrive at your decision? Did the decision turn out to be the correct one? Why or why not?

Behavioral

94

How do you drive adoption for your vision/ideas? How do you know how well your idea or vision has been adopted by other teams or partners? Give a specific example highlighting one of your ideas.

Open-ended

95

How does GCP compete with AWS and Azure?

Open-ended

96

Tell me about a time you took a big risk and it failed. What did you learn? What would you do differently?

Behavioral

97

People often say the simplest solution is the best. Tell me about a particular complex problem you solved with a simple solution.

Behavioral

98

Tell me about a decision for which data and analysis weren�t sufficient to provide the right course and you had to rely on your judgment and instincts. Give me two to three examples. They don�t have to be big strategic decisions � could be big or small.

Behavioral

99

Tell me about a piece of direct feedback you recently gave to a colleague. How did s/he respond? How do you like to receive feedback from others?

Behavioral

100

Tell me about a time the business gained something because you persisted for a length of time. Why were you so determined? How did it turn out?

Behavioral

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