Lead Quality Engineer Interview Experience - San Francisco, California
Process
Referred by a friend and applied for multiple positions.
Had phone interviews with all hiring managers.
Completed two remote programming tests from two different groups.
Cleared one remote programming test and proceeded to an onsite interview with one team.
All teams were actively interviewing other candidates, which led to long delays in scheduling interviews and receiving feedback.
Questions
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RPT - Shortest Path to Coffee Shop given source and destination XY coordinates in Java
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Test Strategy and Test Plan - Email sync process between 2 or more email systems
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Test Framework Design using OOD - Email sync process between 2 or more email systems
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Design a Cache
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Find intersection of 2 arrays
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Interview Statistics
The following metrics were computed from 1 interview experience for the Salesforce Lead Quality Engineer role in San Francisco, California.
Success Rate
Salesforce's interview process for their Lead Quality Engineer roles in San Francisco, California is extremely selective, failing the vast majority of engineers.
Experience Rating
Candidates reported having very good feelings for Salesforce's Lead Quality Engineer interview process in San Francisco, California.
Salesforce Work Experiences
- 5.0One of the top employersSoftware Engineer PMTS • Current EmployeeSan Francisco, California, United StatesJanuary 21, 2023Pros: Great company to work for and has a good work culture. Good, if not the best, salaries. Supports mobility within projects, cities, and countries to support employee career goals and personal life. Promotes work-life balance.Cons: Complex inter-team dependencies can slow you down as an engineer.
- 4.0Pretty good for a devEngineer • Current EmployeeSan Francisco, California, United StatesNovember 12, 2009Pros: Can work on any piece of the app you need to; it's all right there. Excellent DB knowledge in-house. How does Salesforce scale, after all? From the outside, a great sales team.Cons: The codebase is showing its age. The basic design from 5 or 6 years ago didn't scale as well as it could have. It's hard to get good feedback on new ideas. You get very different answers to the same question, depending on who you are talking to. From the inside, the sales team is terrible and very cutthroat.
- 3.0Good Balance, Stagnant GrowthSenior Software Engineer • Current EmployeeSan Francisco, California, United StatesMay 7, 2023Pros: Work-life balance. Remote friendly.Cons: Culture going downhill. Arbitrary/opaque performance metrics. Compensation and career development stagnation.
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