Sallie Mae interview questions
Updated Apr 11, 2026Difficulty
Easy
Experience
Mostly positive
How others got an interview
- 9%RecruiterRecruiter
- 9%Employee ReferralEmployee Referral
- 8%OtherOther
- 7%Campus RecruitingCampus Recruiting
- 6%In PersonIn Person
- 3%Staffing AgencyStaffing Agency
Interview search
138 interviews
Sallie Mae interviews FAQs
- Glassdoor users rated their interview experience at Sallie Mae as 59.1% positive with a difficulty rating score of 2.5 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty). Candidates interviewing for Collections Representative and Database Engineer rated their interviews as the hardest, whereas interviews for Account Executive and Claims Representative roles were rated as the easiest.
- The hiring process at Sallie Mae takes an average of 16 days when considering 134 user submitted interviews across all job titles. To compare, the average duration of hiring at similar companies like BlackRock, Inc. is 14 days, Fabricated Software, Inc. is 2 days, and Apple Inc. is 21 days. Candidates applying for Portfolio Analyst had the quickest hiring process (on average 1 day), whereas Legal roles had the slowest hiring process (on average 150 days).
- Common stages of the interview process at Sallie Mae according to 134 Glassdoor interviews include:
One on one interview: 27%
Phone interview: 19%
Background check: 15%
Skills test: 11%
Drug test: 10%
Group panel interview: 7%
Personality test: 4%
Presentation: 3%
IQ intelligence test: 2%
Other: 1%
Here are the most commonly searched roles for interview reports -
- Collections Specialist(37) ;
- Customer Service Representative(31) ;
- Director(26) ;
- Collector(21) ;
- Manager(15) ;
- Collector I(12) ;
- Account Manager(7) ;
- Analyst(7) ;
- Intern(7) ;
- Financial Analyst(6) ;
- Project Manager(6) ;
- Associate(5) ;
- Business Analyst(5) ;
- Senior Software Engineer(5) ;
- Systems Analyst(5) .