Sales Development Representative practice interview
Prospect research, cold outreach, objection handling, qualification and daily activity discipline. Practise the 5 questions interviewers ask for this role with follow-ups. Paid plans add scored feedback on every answer.
Free with an Intaviu account: 320 credits a month, at 10 credits a minute of practice. Private: interview creators never see them.
- Junior
- 15 minutes
- 5 questions
- Scored feedback on paid plans
About the role
A sales development representative finds and qualifies new prospects so account executives can close them. Day to day you research companies, send cold emails and messages, make calls, handle early objections and book meetings. The panel is checking your discipline, your resilience and your ability to start conversations with strangers.
How to prepare
- Research the company's ideal customers and be ready to explain how you would find and approach them.
- Practise a short cold opening for the product that sounds natural rather than scripted.
- Prepare to talk about how you organise your day to hit activity targets.
- Think about how you handle repeated rejection and stay motivated.
- Revise a simple qualification approach covering budget, need, authority and timing.
Common mistakes
- Sounding robotic or reading a script word for word.
- Chasing volume with no research behind the outreach.
- Booking meetings with prospects who have no real need, just to hit a number.
What to expect
A real first-round interview
5 questions the way interviewers ask for this role, with follow-ups when an answer needs more.
Spoken, like the real thing
Speak your answers in your browser or the free desktop app, with live captions. You can ask the interviewer to repeat anything.
Scored on 5 areas
The things this interview weighs most. With a paid plan, your report shows how you did on each one.
A private report
On Plus, Pro and Premium: every answer scored, your strongest lines quoted and what to say differently next time. Interview creators never see it.
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