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Software Engineer Interview Experience - San Francisco, California

October 1, 2015
Negative ExperienceNo Offer

Process

I was contacted by HR to schedule a phone interview with the hiring manager. It was a 30-minute phone interview where we spoke about projects on my resume. He asked me questions on basic OOPS concepts, multithreading, and garbage collection.

The next round was a coding assessment, which was a two-and-a-half-hour online coding test. The interviewer called me in the first 15 minutes to send a PDF file of the problem statement. I completed the code and had to email the files to the interviewer at the end of 2 hours for evaluation.

He got back to me in a couple of days and invited me to San Francisco for an on-site interview. However, that did not work out as HR suddenly realized that she needed someone to start in November, and I was still in school. This was really disappointing, as my graduation date and start date are clearly mentioned in my resume. It was clearly a waste of my time.

They were really apologetic about this, and HR is still looking for new grad positions for me.

Questions

Cannot disclose the problem statement due to NDA.

However, be prepared with algorithms and data structures.

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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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