Interview Q's

Question 1

Tell me why you are excited about Mongo

Answer 1

-Easy for devs
-Flexible DB for structure and unstructured data
-Blog and AI that created a field the dev needed w/o manual work
-4.3 stars review on Glassdoor
-Many emp have emphasized that Mongo is true to their core values (Build together, Make it Matter, Go Big, Go Far, Embrace the power of differences, Own what you do)

Question 2

Examples of how you had to operate with little to no direction. How do you navigate ambiguity?

Answer 2

-ClickUp and steer cos
-GoNimbly, Color, and Trustlayer
-Copado- created CS processes & playbook-VP liked it so much she wanted it as a formal project for the C Suite

Question 3

Scale and complexity of the programs you have run.

Answer 3

-CPQ and >100 user stories with BDD requirements for NB, Exp, and Renewal CW Q2D automations
-Sales Overhaul to be done in 4.5 months from initiation to close

Question 4

The variety of cross-functional teams worked with. (technical & non-technical, external vs internal)

Answer 4

In Sales Overhaul:
-Systems for lead routing and hierarchy SFDC
-IT for Workday hierarchy
-BI Finance- dashboards and segment definitions
-Field Ops- Territory carving, sales title format, and segment definitions
-Sales FLMs - hierarchy of their teams
-RevOps Analysts - lead routing and sales analysis for low hanging fruit
Legal-comp letters
Commissions
Finance-Quotas, foreceasted HC
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Question 5

Level of executive, VP, and director-level communications. (memos, presentations, Dashboards, etc.)

Answer 5

Steer Cos with
-CRO
-Chief of Staff
-VP IT
-Head IT
-VP Sales AMER
-Head of Field Ops

Question 6

Example of times when you have had to deal with difficult stakeholders and/or conflicting ideas of how something should be done. How and when to escalate.

Answer 6

-Steven at Color with negative sentiment that nothing was getting done after the 1st month and priorities kept changing

OR

-BI that was over capacity-no shows to meetings, did not answer my slacks, and I tried to send an AID message with cont’d no response. CC’d in the Chief of Staff who needed the ARR fixes prioritized-lead to exec discussion on priority alignment .

“Hi Andrea and team, wondering if you can let me know when X task can be done for the ARR fix? I haven’t been able to connect with you on it and I understand that you have a lot on your plate. However, this is an extremely high priority for the board to have accurate ARR reporting for our Q1 data. I am working closely with Chief of Staff, @Connor that I’m adding here for vis.

Question 7

Examples of times you have had to “step outside” your role. Hannah wants someone willing to do what needs to be done to get a task completed and/or to meet a deadline. Looking for someone comfortable wearing multiple hats and “rolling up their sleeves.”

Answer 7

GoNimbly- HS DeDupe

Question 8

Strong stakeholder management- asking for feedback and using that feedback to drive innovation and/or improvement.

Answer 8

I scheduled bi-weekly retros with Color as we were in PoC of the hybrid approach to drive CI on each side

Question 9

What projects are you most proud of?

Answer 9

-CPQ reducing DD time 45 to 10-15 min
-Sales Overhaul

Question 10

How do you build trust with new and/or existing teams? I like to reference the “Trust Equation” in questions like these. (very much so a personal suggestion, this is not something “standard” at MongoDB)

Answer 10

Given Tuckman’s mode of storming, forming, norming, performing, adjourning -

Decentralized leadership among teams

-Servant leadership

-Whole team approach and swarm around problems in team meetings/working sessions
-Used Parabol at GN that can get new teams kickstarted together with the ice breaker question and then into ideas to discuss, and sort the agenda