After a normal interview with the department head, you interview with the founder (28 or so year-old company) and CEO. He will go line-by-line through your resume and dig into every possible question. If you include more than a few rather good things in there, expect him to make you aware of a pride issue and that you're "self-promoting". If he decides he wants you, he's going to lowball you and then tell you all the reasons why you're not worth more. This is a company where everyone is placed either in a "hero" bucket or a "zero" bucket in the top leadership's mind. However, they have some absolutely fantastic downstream leaders and genuinely wonderful people working for them. As you finalize your employment with them, get everything in writing. Be sure that the specific details from your conversations are on your offer letter. Leave nothing to assumption or for both of you to remember it the same way. Don't expect any documents to have a signature from them, but still do the best you can. And lastly, don't earn so much commission on one check for them to think that you're worth more to them gone than still working for them after the big sale. (The internal phrase is "don't be worth more dead than alive".) Despite California and Washington employment laws, if they let go of you before you get paid, they keep the commission money.
