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Software Engineer Interview Experience - San Francisco, California

March 22, 2013
Negative ExperienceNo Offer

Process

I applied for a position in their San Francisco office. After two rounds of phone interviews, they flew me out to SF.

I thought their HR office was decent in arranging my travel; they provided hotel and flight and a small reimbursement for incidentals.

The interview itself was a bit of a letdown. I talked with six people or so, two of whom were general chit-chat, telling me about how great of a company they are and how they have this amazing Java architecture and database layer which has somehow become completely bogged down in overengineered complexity.

I didn't get the job, probably because I bombed one whiteboard question with one interviewer. The question was one of those obnoxious algorithm questions that could be answered in 30 seconds with Wikipedia, but if you don't have it memorized already, you are hosed. Instead of moving on to another question, the interviewer decided to hound me for twenty minutes about the one question.

Thanks, but no thanks. Enjoy fixing your crap architecture yourselves.

Questions

Whiteboarding question. Not really unexpected, just difficult if you haven't memorized.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 62 interview experiences for the Salesforce Software Engineer role in San Francisco, California.

Success Rate

56%
Pass Rate

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

Experience Rating

Positive79%
Neutral10%
Negative11%

Candidates reported having very good feelings for Salesforce's Software Engineer interview process in San Francisco, California.

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