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Updated May 23, 2012 – Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates.
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QE at Salesforce.com
Posted May 23, 2012
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed May 2012 in Mountain View, CA (took 2 weeks)
I was contacted by a recruiter. Interviews went well. Most of the folks were very friendly except one guy. The moment he opened his face, I was like: get me out of here. One of the manager was funny. She said: productivity of our employees is the highest in industry (as if they made these employees in their labs).
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I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a Skills Test, a 1:1 Interview and a Phone Interview.
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Senior Technical Writer at Salesforce.com
Posted May 18, 2012
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Nov 2011 in San Francisco, CA (took a day)
Started with phone interview, which went very well.
In person interview was a different story:
- Interviewed with at least 4 different members of the group.
- Some individuals were clearly unprepared
- The ONE individual I expected to be prepared was Sr Manager. She was late, asked no questions that related to my skills or experience. Her most poignent question: "Tell me about a time you encountered difficulty in your life." Deep. Dished out a ridiculous HTML coding test and left.
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I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Skills Test.
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Sales at Salesforce.com
Posted May 12, 2012
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Jan 2010 (took a day)
when i enter the room, there is only one boss.she will ask you mant professinal questions about this job.
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The interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.
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Senior Financial Analyst - Product Profitability at Salesforce.com
Posted May 8, 2012
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Jan 2012 in San Francisco, CA (took 1 week)
A friend internally submitted my resume for a job at Salesforce. A recruiter contacted me to better understand my qualifications. She "shopped" my resume and I spoke with a hiring manager. He had a very pointed question that caught me completely off-guard. Subsequently, I was informed in less than 24 hours that they had identified another candidate.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Product Marketing Manager at Salesforce.com
Posted May 8, 2012
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Apr 2011 in San Francisco, CA (took 3 months)
Multi round interview consisting of phone interviews, 1 on1 interviews with both colleagues and execs, and a presentation. Long, slow process... But got the impression that the barks very highland they want to make sure that the peop,e they hire cannot only do the job,but will bea cultural fit. This is an intense, demanding company.... And those that fit well will thrive and love it.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, a Group/Panel Interview, a Presentation and a Background Check.
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Product Marketing at Salesforce.com
Posted May 7, 2012
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Jan 2012 (took 5 weeks)
The interviews were pretty standard and I think they were mostly looking for fit. To be honest, I didn't get the sense throughout the process that the team really knew what it was looking for (or if they really were looking to fill a role) and in the end, I believe the role was turned into a temp position.
Spoke to three senior level team members and the thing that most stuck out was the fact that things change very quickly-- "erratically" would probably be the word that best describes it. The team members each pointed it out in our conversations-- that they would work on something and then have it changed or scrapped in the 11th hour-- but then quickly course correct and say "but yeah-- that's how things are around here" in an effort to normalize it. I didn't think that the fast pace of the company was a red flag since it's growing so fast. But I did find it strange that the team members seemed to be quasi-venting over the course of the interview. They all seemed to also complain a bit about tensions on the team. It was all very honest and I think gave a good sense of how the company is but it also presented some red flags about unclear goals and politics within the organization.
My main complaint stems from working with the recruiting team. I think they are probably doing a lot of interviews and trying to manage a lot but there were a lot of dropped balls on their part. For my first onsite, the recruiter gave me the wrong time so I was at the office several hours before my interview. In preparation for my second interview, I was asked for my availability and then didn't hear back for nearly a week. In that time, I had booked another interview (I am actively looking for a job) and when I communicated this to the recruiter, I was mildly chastised for not updating the team. On their side of things, they really should have sent an email telling me to hold a date if they were working to confirm interviews with the team-- that's my opinion. Finally, I was scheduled for a 9 am Monday morning interview and by 3 pm of the week before, I still hadn't gotten confirmation or any kind of status update from the recruiter and had to email her to see what was going on. My understanding (I could be wrong) is that there isn't a consistent email/calendar within the company due to acquisitions so it takes longer to get confirmation from team members. But the experience on the candidate's side of things is a lot of waiting and generally being in a black hole.
In the end, I got a phone call from the recruiter (voicemail) but had already noticed the role I was applying for being advertised as a temp position through an agency. I left her a message. She never called me back or emailed and at that point, the luster of Salesforce had worn off and it seemed like kind of a haphazard and disorganized mess. I would still advocate to others to look at opportunities at the company b/c it is at such a growth phase. But I think there are some growing pains in the recruiting organization that need to get ironed out.
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I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.
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Software Engineer at Salesforce.com
Posted May 1, 2012 — 1 of 1 people found this helpful
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Mar 2012 in San Francisco, CA (took 2 weeks)
I was contacted by a recruiter about this opportunity. After a week i have received
the schedule for phone interview. The interview was with the hiring manager. The questions were related to my current and previous projects, I explained in detail. Then few questions about basic java stuff (oops concepts). Then few questions about performance and memory leaks. The interviewer was very nice and helpful through the interview. He was very happy by the end of the interview and invited me for the onsite interview. Onsite interview was a java coding test and it was in san francisco. After few days of onsite coding test I have heard from the recruiter that they are not moving with my application to the next stage. Overall very positive experience and learned a lot.
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Condition:
Do not use java library function or regular expressions.
And measure the performance of your implementation with the standard java library function.
Examples:
String 1: “abcdefg”
String 2: “bcd”
Should return 1
String 1: “abcdefg”
String 2: “x”
Should return -1
Customers should be able to reserve the table for a timeslot (Sort of like OpenTable)
Other Details
I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Skills Test.
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Account Executive at Salesforce.com
Posted May 5, 2012
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Apr 2012 in San Francisco, CA (took 4+ weeks)
Phone interview with recruiter. Very knowledgeable about SFDC, sales process, what they are looking for, etc. Called back and advised that they wanted to do a panel interview. Interviewed with two VP's f2f, went on to presentation portion of interview process. This is where it really got busy as the apparent goal is to keep you on your toes, and see who will look at what they are expecting and bail, or, just do it. Received info that was required to create a presentation. Role-play selling to execs at a company. The more you prepare/practice, the better. Seems that they wanted to see if you have a presence, can think on your feet, present the product, and ask for the sale. All in all not too bad, but initially, I admit to being a little overwhelmed by process. Meditating on it made it easy to actually do. if you believe in yourself and your abilities, the interview process should be no problem.
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I got the interview through an Employee Referral and the interview consisted of a Background Check, a Presentation, a Group/Panel Interview and a Phone Interview.
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User Experience Intern at Salesforce.com
Posted May 1, 2012
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Apr 2012 in San Francisco, CA (took 1+ week)
I first had a phone interview with 2 UX managers and was then asked to submit a portfolio for review.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Senior Account Executive at Salesforce.com
Posted May 1, 2012
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5.0
Very Difficult Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Jul 2011 in Toronto, ON (Canada) (took 4+ weeks)
* Extremely thorough process - external recruiter referred me to internal recruiter, two phone interviews, panel interview, presentation to senior management, follow-up interview, offer negotiation.
* Internal recruiter did a great job of providing accurate information about the role and culture, while 'selling' me on why it would be a fit.
* Panel interview and presentation are great tools for a mutual assessment - you get a great feel for the culture and expectations from the questions asked and the process to prepare.
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Negotiation Details
Fair and open negotiation process - no game playing. When they want you, they are open to negotiating. And the package is so good, there's very little left to negotiate!
Other Details
I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, a Group/Panel Interview, a Presentation and a Background Check.
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