J'ai postulé via un recruteur. Le processus a pris 2 semaines. J'ai passé un entretien chez Salesforce (San Francisco, CA) en déc. 2018
Entretien
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.
Questions d'entretien [1]
Question 1
What data would you want to store to inform an end user about a product's performance?
The technical interview was much tougher than I anticipated. I faced a DSA question related to word searches that required optimizing a brute-force approach with a Trie. It was intense, but the practice I’d done on PracHub the week before really helped solidify my understanding of the problem-solving techniques. The behavioral round felt lighter, focusing on teamwork and project experience. After a couple of days, I received an offer, which I happily accepted. Overall, it was a challenging yet rewarding experience.
Questions d'entretien [1]
Question 1
Word Search II - given an m x n board of characters and a list of words, return all words that can be formed from sequentially adjacent cells; had to optimize the brute-force backtracking with a Trie to pass the time limit
The interview process started with an online coding assessment that included DSA and problem-solving questions. After clearing the test, I had two technical interview rounds focused on data structures, OOPs concepts, DBMS, and project discussion. The final round was with the hiring manager where they asked about teamwork, problem solving, and career goals. The interviewers were professional and the process was smooth overall.
Went through 3 rounds. First round was a technical interview - it was a take home assessment. I didn't pass the test cases but still went through to the next round. The onsite had 1 behavioral, 1 system design, and 1 technical Leetcode style interview. It was in person on a whiteboard.