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      Pre-Sales Solutions Architect Interview

      16 Aug 2019
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Hong Kong
      No offer
      Neutral experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at MongoDB (Hong Kong) in Jul 2019

      Interview

      I took the interviews up to the third round. The recruiter sent me an email of making the appointment with the interviewer of each round. Once the schedule was set, either the interviewer called me, or we met online through an app. The first interviewer is the principle solutions architect for 10 years there. He gave me a call during his transit in the airport. We talked for around 30 minutes. His questions were basically on my experience, and some technical questions against a particular programming language or technical concept which I claimed familiar with. During the time he interrupted me quite often in case I had already answered what he wanted to hear, or that he would give the question again in a more specific way. He said I got the developer experience, as well as of the support, sales, and consultant, on which I sounded a good fit to the role. The second interview was an online face-to-face. I met a local senior engineer. He started by asking me about my experiences. Then he turned to technical questions, and would want me to talk about the value proposition of the product of the company I was serving in, from which he tried to see if I could be a good pre-sales person. At last he asked if I got any other questions. I expressed that the recruiter didn't contact me and explained me the nature of the position, and therefore I took the chance to ask him things such as if the role would be required to meet a certain sales target or so. He said it wouldn't, but a portion of my annual salary would be based on the sales performance. I also asked if the role would be required on a sound familiarity on MongoDB. He personally said not really. Rather it requires a skill of programming in languages that MongoDB supports. Then a week later I met the third interviewer in StarBucks. He was a salesperson and would want to listen to me on my experience of selling my products in the past, and the approaches. Then he talked about his expectation of the person in this role, said the person should be developer-oriented, because they targeted on developer experience. I then asked him questions like whether the developers were the decision makers or significant enough to be the influencers. I also asked how they branded as an expert of a particular industry or domain. Lastly, I also asked about the business models, the team structure, and motivation toward the cloud platform. But after that round of interview, I was not contacted since then.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      What is Out-of-Memory Exception? What is the key feature of Spring framework? Who are your competitors? What are the value propositions of your product, in comparison to one competitor you suggested. Describe the NoSQL mechanism of your product. What is the benchmark of your product? Why would your product be able to achieve such a speed? Tell me about the HA mechanism of your product. What is your sales approach? What kind of questions will you ask in order to evaluate a prospect?
      Answer question
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      Anonymous interview candidate
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      Negative experience
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      Application

      I applied through a recruiter. The process took 6 months. I interviewed at MongoDB

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      18 Oct 2021
      Anonymous employee
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      Positive experience
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      Application

      I interviewed at MongoDB

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      Anonymous interview candidate
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      Neutral experience
      Average interview

      Application

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