Interviewing at Coupa - What to Expect and How to Prepare
Interviews can be nerve-racking. They can feel unnatural when a lot of information is required from you or sort by you in a short amount of time with a person/people you have likely never met before.
Go through your Resume/CV before the interview. Interviewers may ask you in detail about anything you have written, so it's good to remind yourself before the interview.
At Coupa, we want to support you in preparing for the interview and ensure you have all the information you need to focus on bringing your best and authentic self to the conversation.
In this blog post, we want to provide tips to help you prepare for a successful interview with Coupa.
During the interview process, we aim to create a comfortable environment where you can be your best self! Expect to speak with an internal recruiter first, followed by 2-3 further interviews with the hiring manager, collaborators, and potentially an executive-level leader.
Before Your Interview
Utilise the experience and advice of your internal recruiter. When you meet, it's an excellent opportunity to understand more about each other. In addition, the recruiter can set expectations for the process and the people you will be meeting with.
Before your interview, ensure you have researched Coupa and clearly understand what we do and how the role you're interviewing for can impact Coupa and our growth. An excellent place to start is to check out our website at coupa.com and our LinkedIn page. You can also check out Glassdoor, Gartner and Forrester reports. I recommend looking at and taking the time to understand the Coupa Core Values as these inform our culture.
Go through your Resume/CV before the interview. Interviewers may ask you in detail about anything you have written, so it's good to remind yourself before the interview.
Review the responsibilities and qualifications of the job, and remember to highlight how your past experiences could relate to the role you're interviewing for. We use behaviour-based interviewing questions, so have some examples in mind to discuss during the interview.
To ensure a smooth virtual interview, install and test Zoom beforehand. Find a quiet space for the Zoom call where you will not be distracted, and choose a suitable background. This way, you can focus on the interview, not be distracted and not worry about technical difficulties.
Finally, we want to work with curious and collaborative people excited to grow their careers at Coupa Software and who can bring different perspectives to our company. So, come to the interview prepared to ask thoughtful questions and show us your passion for innovation and dynamic problem-solving.
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Before working at Coupa, I was extremely dissatisfied with my job for nearly a decade. I felt trapped, imprisoned, frustrated to the point of not knowing whether to burst out bawling or laughing (and did both over the years), and nearly desperate. Why did it take me so long to leave and find Coupa? Before Covid and the social norm of using Zoom or Google Meets, I knew there were no other companies nearby my small, Wisconsin town that could provide a similar income without an hour commute, and as the breadwinner of my family with my husband an elementary school teacher along with our two high school girls, I could not justify trading my happiness to diminish theirs. Being a midwesterner as well as a GenXer, I talked myself into “sucking it up” and grinding for the next 20 years until I could retire for them to have stability. Covid, Zoom and then Coupa changed my life. With the global pandemic changing the way business worked, it was like my eyes were opened up to the entire world of possibilities. I made it my second job to read job descriptions and attend virtual interviews, refusing to settle for a company I wasn’t obsessed with. My obsession with Coupa started before even my first conversation with Talent Acquisition, from the very beginning when I read the job description that included Coupa’s Core Values. Not only did I fully embody and believe in all three values from the start, but I was obsessed with a company that would even have values like this! I had no idea how important and embedded these values really were to this company at the time, but it was the first reason I wanted to work here.
