They accommodated my schedule and broke the interview into 3 meetings, one on site, one remote, and another one on site. Started with a phone interview with the hiring manager. Very relaxed informational almost to get high level fit to the role. The on site included again the hiring manager, and an engineering manager. Again, the Product Management interview was mostly talking about my background, technologies and products I worked with, followed by overview of the role at Jive. The Engineering manager was a great opportunity to meet a member of the technical team, and do a quick case study around a technical problem. This was no different than many discussions Product Managers have day to day with their engineering counter parts. You are not asked to program or are put on the spot, it is more of a collaborative discussion. After my first on site, they called and said they want me to meet more members of the team, which included 2 other leaders in the Product Management team. The discussion was again very casual, trying to assess cultural fit as well as your past accomplishments. No tricky questions, nothing you need to prepare for, just be yourself. The final meeting was with the CPO, this was by far the best meeting in terms of getting me to know that if I get an offer, I will take it. The culture and people are just great, which is the case in many companies, but sometimes you start loosing that connection the higher you go in the org chart. In this case, I got a great impression that the management team is open, communicative and part of the team.

I was extremely impressed with the hiring process. Throughout the process everyone at Jive replied almost instantly to my email and voice mail inquiries. Salary expectations were discussed on the very first phone call with the internal recruiter which is a refreshing change. Second call with the hiring manager was only scheduled for 30 minutes but she took the time to speak with me for over an hour. Third step was a 5.5 hour round-robin-style interview of seven total colleagues from various teams. This step was exhausting but I very much enjoyed meeting the various people and their perspectives (added bonus, I felt like I had connections with them on my first day). Final interview was 30 scheduled for minutes (went to 45) with the senior manager of the team which turned out to be more difficult but I still enjoyed the experience. All along the way the recruiter was providing status updates and I felt informed. The hiring manager personally called me with the great news my offer letter was soon to be in my inbox!