Salesforce interview notes, page 4 of 13

“This sounds like a gift because you're talking about your own stuff, but I kind of rambled for the first few minutes before finding a thread.” 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.

“Stared at this longer than I should have.” 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.

“Blanked for a second.” The rest of the author's notes on Technical Program Manager interview at Salesforce, Recruiter / HR Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“Pretty approachable once you realize it's just two passes with a hash set.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Salesforce, Onsite - Coding / Algorithms round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“I knew the greedy angle pretty quickly: sort by start day, use a min-heap keyed by end day, iterate day by day and always pick the event expiring soonest.” The rest of the author's notes on Backend 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 is a big one.” The rest of the author's notes on Backend 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 went with a story about delivering bad news to a PM mid-sprint when a dependency fell through.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Salesforce, Onsite - Behavioral / Leadership round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“I knew to use squared distance to skip the sqrt, that part was fine.” 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 looked manageable until I started thinking about URL normalization and what 'same domain' actually means when you have subdomains, redirects, trailing slashes.” The rest of the author's notes on Machine Learning 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.

“My first instinct was to just loop and keep dividing by 2, which works fine but felt clunky.” 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.