Did the Salesforce PM loop in January for a senior PM role on the Sales Cloud team. Came in with B2B SaaS experience which I think helped calibrate expectations.
The PM loop at Salesforce is longer than most companies do. I had five rounds: Recruiter screen Hiring manager conversation (exploratory, not a formal case) Product strategy round Execution and metrics round Leadership/behavioral round
Product strategy round was the meatiest. They gave me a 48-hour take-home prompt before the interview: analyze a gap in Salesforce's current product and propose a solution. I spent most of a Saturday on this. In the live session we walked through my proposal and they challenged every assumption. This is where they're testing whether you understand enterprise CRM buyers, not just product principles.
Execution round focused on: how do you prioritize? How do you work with engineering when they push back on scope? Give me an example of a launch that went wrong and what you did. They wanted STAR format and specific numbers.
Metrics. They asked "what metrics would you track to know if [feature] was succeeding" for a feature I had proposed. They went deep: leading indicators, lagging indicators, guardrail metrics, what would you do if you saw metric X move but not Y. Prepare for this.
The take-home is the part people don't expect. It's real work. Don't try to do it in an hour.
Comp context: the offer I got was roughly in line with what I'd seen for senior PM at similar Bay Area companies, maybe 10-15% below Google/Meta tier. They're not trying to win on pure comp but the benefits and stability are real.