I applied through an employee referral. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Salesforce (Bellevue, WA) in Oct 2019
Interview
The Salesforce recruiting team is very professional and responsive . It is the best I experienced so far during my job seeking journey.
I were already in other companies' onsite interview loop (FB, Amazon, and the like) when I started my application to Salesforce' engineer position. The recruiter and the hiring manager were very accommodating and got my informational, tech screen, and onsite scheduled and done less than two weeks.
The recruiter was so responsive. I usually got reply from her within an hour.
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Question 1
The onsite interview was exhausting: one round of project experience; one round of coding (2 medium); lunch with hiring manager (behavior and culture fit); one round of system design; the final round is code (medium) + system design.
I would recommend good sleep before the interview day and order simple and light thing for lunch (don't forget you still have two round after the lunch, heavy meal definitely has impact on brain function after)
I went through four rounds:
1. Hacker rank (1 easy and 1 medium)
2. Architecture / Distributed systems design
3. Low level design of a generic system
4. Coding and fixing code
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Question 1
1. User/system event log that is searchable
2. Url shortener / Job scheduler
3. Highest card wins game for coding
I applied online. I interviewed at Salesforce in Jan 2025
Interview
I had a disappointing experience which i never expected from Salesforce Hiring manager. During the interview, the hiring manager was unprofessional and mocking at the answers. A constructive discussions and a respectful approach should have created a better experience for both parties.
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How would you troubleshoot an infrastructure solution.
I applied online. I interviewed at Salesforce (Hyderābād) in Mar 2024
Interview
Online hacker rank test
then 4 rounds of interviews
1. Coding where had to solve two medium level question in an hour
2. Low level design: data migration service
3. System Design: rate limiter
4. Behavioural
Overall process was smooth. interviewers were helpful and overall good discussion
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Question 1
1. design rate limiter
2. design data migration service