Salesforce interview notes, page 6 of 13

“This is the whole interview, not just one question.” The rest of the author's notes on AI 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 this cold, or so I thought.” 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 started with the happy path, caller dials 911, signal hits a tower, gets routed to a PSAP.” 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 was a lot to hold in one question.” 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.

“I went straight to role-based access control and IP allowlisting, which felt fine, but I didn't think to bring up attribute-based policies or OAuth scopes until after the call.” 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.

“The sorted case felt manageable.” 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 got the basic structure up pretty fast but the timer logic tripped me up more than I expected.” 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.

“The base query wasn't bad, I joined order_items to products and did the aggregation with sum(quantity * unit_price) and sum(quantity * unit_cost), derived profit from those two, then divided for the ratio.” 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 started with the happy path which was fine, but I underestimated how much time the payment and queue routing pieces would eat up.” 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 sorted case is pretty clean, single pass, O(n) time and constant space, just compare each node to the next and skip.” 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.