Salesforce

Software Engineer Interview Experience - San Francisco, California

October 1, 2017

Positive ExperienceGot Offer

Process

I had two phone screens and one online technical assessment before attending my onsite interview.

The onsite interview consisted of three technical rounds and one round with the hiring manager for behavioral questions.

The overall interview experience was pretty good. They observed how I spoke and how I tackled questions.

Questions

Questions widely cover front-end technologies such as HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, to back-end concepts like object-oriented design, SQL, and the Java language. Salesforce also expects developers to have a testing mindset. Therefore, include some basic testing knowledge as well.

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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.

Salesforce Work Experiences

Ok place to work

Software Engineer • Current Employee

San Francisco, California, United States

Pros: Good work-life balance. Good team culture. Collaborative.

Cons: Very bad bonuses and promotion cycles are slow.

Ok place to work

Software Engineer • Current Employee

San Francisco, California, United States

Pros: Good work-life balance. Good team culture. Collaborative.

Cons: Very bad bonuses and promotion cycles are slow.

Great Place, A Little Slow

Software Engineer • Current Employee

San Francisco, California, United States

November 30, 2021

Pros: Mental health is valued. Interesting problems, as it is a popular product and can be fun to code on Core.

Cons: Build takes an hour. Lots of tests. Lots of process.

Great Place, A Little Slow

Software Engineer • Current Employee

San Francisco, California, United States

November 30, 2021

Pros: Mental health is valued. Interesting problems, as it is a popular product and can be fun to code on Core.

Cons: Build takes an hour. Lots of tests. Lots of process.

Good, well-meaning folks who could do better

Software Engineer • Current Employee

San Francisco, California, United States

September 27, 2016

Pros: - People (usually) listen well. - The company invests in training its people. - Great benefits and pay.

Cons: - It's a lumbering corporate behemoth; hard to change things. - Concierge and Chatter are soul-killing; it doesn't feel very much like "ohana" when you don't have a person you can talk to about benefits/HR things easily in person. - More concerned about hurting white guys' feelings than actually making changes to become more inclusive.

Good, well-meaning folks who could do better

Software Engineer • Current Employee

San Francisco, California, United States

September 27, 2016

Pros: - People (usually) listen well. - The company invests in training its people. - Great benefits and pay.

Cons: - It's a lumbering corporate behemoth; hard to change things. - Concierge and Chatter are soul-killing; it doesn't feel very much like "ohana" when you don't have a person you can talk to about benefits/HR things easily in person. - More concerned about hurting white guys' feelings than actually making changes to become more inclusive.

Ok place to work

Software Engineer • Current Employee

San Francisco, California, United States

Pros: Good work-life balance. Good team culture. Collaborative.

Cons: Very bad bonuses and promotion cycles are slow.

3.0
Ok place to work
Software Engineer • Current Employee
San Francisco, California, United States
June 7, 2024
Pros: Good work-life balance. Good team culture. Collaborative.
Cons: Very bad bonuses and promotion cycles are slow.

Great Place, A Little Slow

Software Engineer • Current Employee

San Francisco, California, United States

November 30, 2021

Pros: Mental health is valued. Interesting problems, as it is a popular product and can be fun to code on Core.

Cons: Build takes an hour. Lots of tests. Lots of process.

5.0
Great Place, A Little Slow
Software Engineer • Current Employee
San Francisco, California, United States
November 30, 2021
Pros: Mental health is valued. Interesting problems, as it is a popular product and can be fun to code on Core.
Cons: Build takes an hour. Lots of tests. Lots of process.

Good, well-meaning folks who could do better

Software Engineer • Current Employee

San Francisco, California, United States

September 27, 2016

Pros: - People (usually) listen well. - The company invests in training its people. - Great benefits and pay.

Cons: - It's a lumbering corporate behemoth; hard to change things. - Concierge and Chatter are soul-killing; it doesn't feel very much like "ohana" when you don't have a person you can talk to about benefits/HR things easily in person. - More concerned about hurting white guys' feelings than actually making changes to become more inclusive.

3.0
Good, well-meaning folks who could do better
Software Engineer • Current Employee
San Francisco, California, United States
September 27, 2016
Pros: - People (usually) listen well. - The company invests in training its people. - Great benefits and pay.
Cons: - It's a lumbering corporate behemoth; hard to change things. - Concierge and Chatter are soul-killing; it doesn't feel very much like "ohana" when you don't have a person you can talk to about benefits/HR things easily in person. - More concerned about hurting white guys' feelings than actually making changes to become more inclusive.

Salesforce Interview Questions

Power Grid Maintenance

Given a set of cities and the costs to run power lines between them, calculate the minimum cost to connect all cities into a functioning power grid.

GraphsArraysDynamic Programming

Minimum Operations to Reduce an Integer to 0

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.

Greedy AlgorithmsBit Manipulation

Delete and Earn

You're given a list of numbers. By deleting a number, you earn its value, but you must also delete all numbers one less and one greater than it. Maximize the total earned value.

ArraysDynamic Programming

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