I managed to get an interview through a former colleague. Overall, there are two rounds:

• Round 1: A 90-minute phone interview with a software engineer. The bulk of this round consists of an in-depth discussion about one of your projects (typically your most recent experience). The interviewer was interested in the overall design, considered approaches and trade-offs, requirements evolution, and implementation details. Make sure you are very comfortable talking about any item on your resume. After that, there were several knowledge-based OOP questions followed by one coding task on Collabedit (nothing too difficult).

• Round 2: An on-site interview consisting of four 1-hour-long rounds with software engineers. You'll get your schedule upfront (names and times). Each interview is a mix of system design questions focusing on scalability and robustness (I was being interviewed for an infrastructure role) and whiteboard coding. The questions weren't too hard – LeetCode level easy/medium. I thought I would be done after my fourth round, but it turned out there was one more "secret" round with the VP of infrastructure. I was asked only one question – a large-scale design problem – but I ended up talking for more than 30 minutes (data size, traffic, API, request flow, load balancers, security, session replication, fault tolerance, sharding...). After I was done, I still had some time, so I used it to ask more about Salesforce and its products.

I received an offer on the very next day (I had another offer deadline). Both the salary and the benefits were very generous, and I ended up accepting. Overall, I had a really lovely time interviewing with Salesforce – everyone was really friendly and the whole process was well-organized.

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Data structures and system design questions.