Interview process included a recruiter phone screen, hiring manager Zoom interview, take-home deliverable (launch plan for a Verkada product), and finally an onsite day where I presented the take-home deliverable to a group of stakeholders and chatted with each of them individually. The entire process took 2-3 weeks and the recruiting team was amazing throughout (thank you Erica and Karizma)! They were always on top of communications, proactive in telling me what to expect, responsive via text, and just helpful all-around.

The interviewer (Senior Manager of Product Marketing) was late to the interview and proceeded to attempt to interrogate me with a series of repetitive questions that really had no direct connection to the job responsibility itself. Her attitude was curt and dismissive and once you get to talking about the product, you realize that she has zero understanding of how marketing works, and not a lot of technical knowledge (quite surprising) of what the competition is like. She would repeat basic information listed on their own website when I asked for further clarification. After I finished answering all of her questions, and when it was my turn to ask questions, I asked about how they market their solutions knowing that their potential clients would have already considered Verkada's product weaknesses versus competitor solutions. She paused for one second and said, "Actually, I would like you to answer that instead." And when she did answer my other simple questions, her answers to all the other questions were quite vague as well and it does feel like the bulk of the workload in the marketing teams is definitely being carried by other teams and other members.