Salesforce interview notes, page 3 of 13

“The core of the whole interview.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Salesforce, Onsite - System Design / Architecture round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“This is a deceptively broad prompt.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Salesforce, Online Assessment (OA) round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“This was basically the whole interview.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Salesforce, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“I picked Notion because it was the first thing that came to mind and I use it every day.” The rest of the author's notes on Product Manager interview at Salesforce, Hiring Manager Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“The basic logic clicks pretty fast: iterate, count runs, write back.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Salesforce, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“This one sprawled fast.” The rest of the author's notes on Machine Learning Engineer interview at Salesforce, Onsite - System Design / Architecture round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“I knew what NAF was in theory but writing the actual algorithm under pressure was a different story.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Salesforce, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“This one goes deeper than it looks.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Salesforce, Hiring Manager Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“I started with the happy path, which felt fine at first, but the interviewer kept pushing on what happens when the primary datacenter goes down mid-call.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Salesforce, Onsite - System Design / Architecture round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“The part that tripped me up was the asymmetry: x contributes a subsequence (characters don't have to be adjacent) but y contributes a substring (they do).” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Salesforce, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.