I made initial contact through a couple previous colleagues. Then I had three phone interviews with the hiring manager, one of his peers in another location, an HR representative. Next, I had two 1-on-1 interviews with the hiring manager and a sales manager who I would be supporting. The hiring manager requested that I take a technical pre-training assessment on-line, and suggested a couple books that I could read to learn more about the position and business environment I would be in (I read one and felt I had adequate background with the other). Next came an hour-long panel interview with the hiring manager, the sales manager I would support, and two of his account managers (one of those was the former colleague who introduced me at the beginning). Lastly, I met with two more account manager future colleagues whom I would be supporting, mostly for informal introductions.

Questions on the industry and key open source technologies. Cultural fit was important as well for the hiring team. Kubernetes, containers, platform engineering and security were key topics for the interview.