Salesforce

Software Engineer Interview Experience

October 1, 2025

Positive ExperienceNo Offer

Process

Pretty good, not much to complain about. Lots of questions about any related experience in marketing. They also asked about prior experience working in larger teams because, even though every small team is responsible for a specific area, you still need to communicate with other teams.

Questions

Have you had any experience in marketing?

Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 301 interview experiences for the Salesforce Software Engineer role.

Success Rate

53%

Pass Rate

Salesforce's interview process for their Software Engineer roles is on the easier side as most engineers get an offer after going through it.

Experience Rating

Positive78%

Neutral11%

Negative11%

Candidates reported having very good feelings for Salesforce's Software Engineer interview process.

Salesforce Interview Questions

Power Grid Maintenance

Medium

You're managing a power grid and need to schedule maintenance. Determine the minimum number of maintenance periods required to ensure no two adjacent power lines are down simultaneously.

GraphsArraysDynamic Programming

Minimum Operations to Reduce an Integer to 0

Medium

Find the minimum number of operations to reduce a given positive integer to 0. You can either subtract a power of 2 or add a power of 2 in each operation.

Bit ManipulationGreedy Algorithms

String Compression

Medium

Compress a given string by replacing consecutive repeating characters with the character followed by the count of repetitions. If the compressed string isn't shorter, return the original.

ArraysStringsTwo Pointers