I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Salesforce (New York, NY) in Jan 2019
Interview
Applied online and they got back to me within 2 weeks with a technical interview. It was two questions in one hour on HackerRank. Then it went on to a google hangout interview which was pretty much memorizing your resume quiz.
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Salesforce in Dec 2018
Interview
Very smooth process. All interviewers were fun to talk to and extremely collaborative. Overall a great experience. Process began with a recruiter reaching out to setup an initial phone screen. After the screen, I was flown in for a day of onsite interviews. Heard back with an offer the next day.
Video screen: Three algorithm coding exercises each of with built upon the previous questions.
Onsite: Four one hour interviews.
- 1: Whiteboard coding
- 2: Behavioral and system design
- 3: OOP questions and design
- 4: Whiteboard coding
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Typical algorithm questions, high level system design, OOP design.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Salesforce (San Francisco, CA) in Dec 2018
Interview
I applied for a Full-Stack/Front-End Software Engineer position. Unlike the likes of Google, Salesforce first selects teams that may be interested and has them reach out to you and interview you on-site. After a HackerRank screen, two teams were interested in talking to me on-site so I had a double day booked in a day (7 hours or so), with interviews alternatively with one team and the other.
The questions were relatively straightforward. One team was more focused on practical questions using JS, finding bugs, knowing about peculiarities, etc. The second was a bit more abstract, with questions about what design decision I'd make to build an instrumentation system as well as a graph related question. Last but not least, I had a broader discussion with the engineering lead about tradeoffs between different technical decisions to build a particular system.
Overall a great experience. One thing to note is that Salesforce is a heavily remote company so a number of interviews were remote, which wasn't an issue at all.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What data would you want to store to inform an end user about a product's performance?