I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Salesforce (San Francisco, CA) in Mar 2025
Interview
Interview process was fast .First talked to HM who assessed my experience and job fit .Following HM go , there was a team of four who interviewed me each individually. I enquired about the problem the team is trying to solve. Questions were related to my experience, problem solving , behavioral and tricks of the trade (data structures, design, profiling etc)
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Question was related to transaction db getting bottlenecked and team facing scalability challenges. Think out loud and also talk about any design/architecture you would prefer to solve such kind of problems
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Salesforce (Hyderabad) in Sep 2022
Interview
I applied through a recruiter. The process took approximately 3 weeks. I interviewed at Salesforce (Hyderabad) in Sep 2022.
Coding round - where 2 questions are asked on hackerrank. There is no need to run the code, just need to write code and dry run for test case
Low Level Design Round and 2 High Level Design rounds
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Leetcode Medium level questions on Strings, Arrays.
High Level Design questions - Lot of emphasis on Databases to use, what APIs are required and Scalability, Reliability aspects.