Sales Development Representative Interview Questions

Use these 13+ Sales Development Representative interview questions to assess candidates from every angle: warm-up, role-specific skills, behavior, and problem solving. Adapt them to your process, or generate a custom set with the AI tool below.

Jasmin Erge

Written by Jasmin Erge, HR Content Specialist at Hirex. Reviewed by the Hirex Recruitment Team. Last updated July 15, 2026.

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Welcoming questions

  1. Can you tell us about yourself and why you want a career in sales?
  2. What do you know about our product and who we sell to?

Role-specific / technical competencies

  1. Write a three-sentence cold email to an HR director about our product, out loud.
  2. How do you research an account before reaching out? What are you looking for?
  3. How do you structure your day to hit activity targets consistently?
  4. What makes a lead qualified enough to book for an AE?
  5. Which outreach tools have you used, and how did you personalize at scale?

Behavioural & culture fit

  1. Tell us about a goal you chased for months. How did you stay consistent?
  2. Describe the harshest rejection you have faced, in work or life. How did you respond?
  3. What is the best piece of coaching you ever received, and what did you do with it?

Problem-solving / case

  1. A prospect replies angrily that your email is spam. What do you write back?
  2. You are behind on your meeting target with a week left in the month. What do you do?
  3. A meeting you booked no-shows twice. How do you rescue it without being annoying?

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