I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Salesforce (Seattle, WA) in Jan 2015
Interview
The best interview process I ever had in my life. Great work of recruiters, Company and employees who were participating in interview loop. Salesforce interview process should be an example for the rest of IT industry as it is done with utmost respect to the candidate, allows to check candidate skills from various points and also gives the great feeling about the company. Interview process consists of 3 stages:
1. Interview with hiring manager
2. Remote Coding Test (RPT)
3. On-site interview
You go to next stage if you pass the current stage. Advice for RPT stage: to pass this stage you need consider the task as a real life task, describe your assumptions and absolutely be good at managing your time (total test time is 2 hours - not a minute more). You definitely will not complete all test for the given time, but make sure you describe what you decided to implement first and why. Also, leave time within those 2 hours for unit tests. Consider corner cases from real life experience.
Again, it is the best interview experience I had in my life and Salesforce is a great company to work in.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
- Hiring manager stage: find all words which start from particular letter (case insensitive)
- Remote Coding Test stage: implements components installer (implement the following methods: MakeDependency(component1, component2) // makes component1 dependent on component2
Install(component1) // installs component1 and components it is dependent upon (if they're not installed already)
Remove(component2) // removes component1 and components it is dependent upon if they're not used by other installed components.
Note: component1 can be dependent on component2 and component3; and component4 can be dependent on component2
- On-site interview: lots of technical questions like implement itoa, find kth largest in array, how to implement unit-tests, lots of behavioral questions.
Round 1: DSA in Hackerrank. 80% is cutoff. 2 questions will be given 1 easy and 1 medium to hard. Easy must be solved and for other one atleast 12 out of 15 tests must be passing to get 80% score
Round 2: system design
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Question 1
Standard leet code questions and hackerrank questions
Diving into the technical round, I was presented with a merging intervals problem that required careful thought on overlapping intervals. The solution needed to be efficient, and I felt comfortable tackling it thanks to my prep. A total stroke of luck hit me when I realized the question was nearly identical to one I worked on at PracHub. After that, I moved through a behavioral interview discussing my previous experiences, and overall, it felt like a solid exchange. I received an offer shortly after and accepted.
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Merge Intervals - given an array of intervals where intervals[i] = [start, end], merge all overlapping intervals and return an array of the non-overlapping intervals that cover all the intervals in the input
First they do HR screening , after that one manager interview , manger ask done md level java technical question. then hackerank coding online coding test . After there will 2 hours then two live coding and one discussion about existing code block. After that one system design , testing feature related interview
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Question 1
I can’t tell details , but mid level leetcode problem