I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Salesforce (San Francisco, CA) in Jan 2021
Interview
There was a take home hackerrank to start with, and then the onsite which consisted of a behavioral round, design round, technical/hackerrank evaluation, and a discussion of previous projects. The interviewers were all friendly and easy going.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Describe a project you worked on, and what you would have changed
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Salesforce
Interview
Very friendly and knowledgable interviewers. The interviews were quite thorough and touched upon various aspects of System design, Programming, CI/CD and DevOps. We discussed my current job profile, tools and technologies and challenges faced in day-to-day work. The interviewers also spent time to provide me a good enough understanding of the Salesforce team, product and the work culture.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
Design a food delivery portal. Explain various components, schema, workflows.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Salesforce (Bengaluru) in Mar 2020
Interview
Entire process took place on Video calls due to CoVid-19 outbreak.
Four rounds of interview, two programming and system design rounds and the other two were purely system design.
All the interviewers were nice people and technically challenged me well during the interviews, at the same time being very polite and professional.
The recruiter was very helpful.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Questions around programming implementing data streams/distributed cache/consistent hashing and distributed system design