I had 8 interviews with Qualtrics all the way leading up to the offer. I was given a verbal offer and entered the salary negotiation stage. However, the job required a relocation that I ultimately was unable to commit to. Nonetheless, my interview experience with qualtrics was excellent, I really liked the company, and if personal life circumstances were different, I would have taken the offer.
Interview 1 - 30 min phone screen, mostly informational for the qualtrics manager to talk to me, and they peppered in some questions about my experience and why I was looking for a new job
Interview 2 - 15 min HR screen asking for basic background info, Visa requirements, salary expectations, etc
Interview 3 - Behavioral video screen, 30 (or 45?) minutes of standard behavioral questions, nothing special to note there
Interview 4 - 8 were done back to back on the day in the office.
Interview 4 - Onsite interview, this interview was done by an engineer who asked me mostly SQL questions and asked me to code in SQL to various scenarios (pulling data in different ways). My actual SQL coding ability is abysmal, but I was able to talk through the way I thought, which was efficient and clear. To my great surprise I actually passed this interview. The engineer was very personable and easy to talk to.
Interview 5 - behavioral interview from a manager who would be my team lead
Interview 6 - behavioral interview from someone currently in the position
Interview 7 - behavioral interview from a counterpart in the business. Notable questions are about how to deal with a difficult customer, how to deal with scope creep, and how to deal with scope change halfway through implementation
Interview 8 - behavioral interview from counterpart in sales. Notable questions are how to deal with a difficult customer (seriously, it sounds like they have a lot of difficult customers), and how to differentiate qualtric's technology with competitors to client buyers who may not be technical people. This is actually something I do a lot in my current job, so I do believe I answered these questions quite well.
From an experience perspective, the onsite could have been organized better. The flight they bought me was scheduled to land in Seattle around 11pm, I didn't get to the hotel until midnight, and the first interview was 8am. It was unclear who was supposed to greet me, and I awkwardly waited at the door while I called every recruiter I had spoken to, and I'm quite sure I was let in by a random employee. Since they were headquartered in Utah, most of my onsite interviews were done over video chat even though I was physically in their Seattle office. After all the interviews, it was about noon, and they didn't keep me there for lunch even though there was clearly catered lunch for that day, which I found very odd. But I did get a daily stipend for food that was sufficient.
Overall, I thought everyone from the 4 parts of business I talked to (HR, engineering, consulting, and business) were all energetic, down to earth, and bright people that I would enjoy working with. The 3 interviews pre-onsite were all done within 2 weeks, then there was a 2.5 week lead time to schedule the onsite (on a Friday), and they gave verbal offer by the following Friday.
