Salesforce

Software QA Engineer Interview Experience - San Francisco, California

November 1, 2014

Positive ExperienceNo Offer

Process

Applied online and received a call from the recruiter. There was a phone screen, a coding problem to be completed in a couple of hours, and then an onsite interview.

Onsite consisted of both 1:1 and panel interviews.

Questions

Hash table concepts and implement a hash table
Circular linked list
Write test cases for a registration form
Level order traversal
Determine if a given string is a palindrome

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 3 interview experiences for the Salesforce Software QA Engineer role in San Francisco, California.

Success Rate

33%

Pass Rate

Salesforce's interview process for their Software QA Engineer roles in San Francisco, California is fairly selective, failing a large portion of engineers who go through it.

Experience Rating

Positive100%

Neutral0%

Negative0%

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

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