Selection I applied for the position on their site.

Phone Screen I spoke to a recruiter about my experience at my current company and why I was looking for a new position. Because of my previous experience, he felt that I would do better on the QA Engineer interview.

Technical Phone Screen The manager scheduled to interview me had to reschedule twice, but once we had the interview, it was a pretty good experience. He asked me about projects I worked on, and we had a good conversation.

On-site Interview Three days after the phone screen, the recruiter reached out to me to set up an on-site interview. Salesforce flew me out to their office, paid for my hotel, and gave a stipend for general expenses. The on-site interview comprised of five one-hour interviews with members of the team I would be joining.

I had a one-hour programming test on-site that included implementing two Java String methods and their test cases. I didn't provide the most optimal solution for one of the methods, but I felt that I had very good test cases, which I focused on because the position was for Quality Engineering.

The second interview was with the QE manager of the team; it was mostly an interview on fit and a few technical questions. The lunch interview was with the Product Manager of the team, and that was also a fit interview. The fourth interview was with a Quality Engineer on the team and revolved around testing an alarm clock. The fifth interview was a technical interview on Java knowledge and some SQL.

Another Phone Interview The Director of QE gave me another technical call about testing an online reservation system.

Next Steps I thought I did well on the on-site interview but horribly with the final phone interview (I was not aware it would be a technical call). The team thought I was a very good fit, and I was offered a position.

I had a 1-hour programming test on-site that included implementing two Java String methods and their test cases. I didn't provide the most optimal solution for one of the methods, but I felt that I had very good test cases. I focused on these because the position was for Quality Engineering.