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Accepted Offer – Interviewed in Seattle, WA Jun 2013 – Reviewed Jun 14, 2013 New
Interview Details – Contacted by a Salesforce.com recruiter via LinkedIn inMail. After an informational call with the recruiter, she set up a phone screen with the hiring manager. The phone interview was pretty general- experience, a few technical questions, and then any questions I had about the job. After passing the phone interview, I had to take a programming test that lasted about 2 hours. It was done remotely over GoToMeeting and involved a programming exercise to create an iPhone app in XCode. After passing the programming test we set up an onsite interview. There were 5 interview sessions lasting on average 45 mins each. Several of the sessions were done via video conference or Skype. Questions covered the usual: object oriented design and data structures, iOS concepts, unit testing and UI automation, and work experience and behavioral. Lastly I talked to the hiring manager again about team fit and career goals.
Interview Question – Programming exercise was good- you had 1:15 hr in XCode to write a simple iOS application with data persistence, implement a shake motion gesture, localize it into french and spanish, and ensure the UI resized correctly. Then you had to write the test cases for your app. All told if you knew what you were doing you should have the basics done in under an hour. From there you can spend the rest of your time making the UI pretty. Answer Question
No Offer – Reviewed Jun 7, 2013 New
Interview Details – Seemed a bit disorganized and took a long time to set initial interview. Interviewer was late and seemed rushed on the call.
Interview Question – Math case question: how long does it take to evacuate NYC. Answer Question
No Offer – Interviewed in Jul 2012 – Reviewed Jun 7, 2013 New
Interview Details – Applied via recommendation from internal employee. Received email from recruiter who scheduled a 1hr phone call. 3-4 days after call I received an email from another recruiter within Salesforce that they had interest, and wanted me to interview with hiring manager. Scheduled and had that conversation, but location turned out to be non-negotiable, so no further interviews occurred given I didn't plan on relocating at that time.
Interview Question – None extremely difficult between 2 interviews. Mostly history/resume/what they're looking for & what the role is like within SF.com. Answer Question
Accepted Offer – Interviewed in San Francisco, CA Dec 2010 – Reviewed May 29, 2013
Interview Details – Started as an intern. Referred in. Interviewed with recruiter, manager and brought in. Interviewed 6 months later in panel style interview with 4 managers for full time position.
Interview Question – What is your biggest weakness View Answer
Negotiation Details – Nonexistent
Declined Offer – Interviewed in San Francisco, CA Feb 2013 – Reviewed May 18, 2013
Interview Details – Initial screening was interesting and seemed rushed to get you into a specific role quickly without fully qualifying your background. Lack of probing questions. Seemed to be incented to get you into an interview for a lower-level role first, rather than find the right fit. I feel they need to be VERY careful about their elimination process as they appear to be targeting a certain age profile.
Interview Questions
Reason for Declining – Following 3rd round of interviews/presentation, I uncovered that they appeared to want younger candidates that were more focused on lead-generation rather than skills at developing longer-term relationships. I feel that sales in IT should be more relationship based and not transactional. This appears to be a short-term market-grab strategy with little or no focus on relationships.
Accepted Offer – Interviewed in San Mateo, CA Nov 2009 – Reviewed May 7, 2013
Interview Details –
Phone screen by recruiter
In-person interview with a panel of managers (typically the ones that have an open rec)
Presentation (this may be changing soon)
Interview Question – Why should someone choose salesforce as opposed to a competitor? View Answer
No Offer – Interviewed in Mar 2013 – Reviewed Apr 25, 2013
Interview Details –
1st Round of Phone Screening
2nd Round onsite pure Java Screening
Interview Question –
Not Difficult or unexpected questions
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Previous Work experience
About Tools that I worked on
How do you test Facebook App
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No Offer – Interviewed in Santa Monica, CA Apr 2013 – Reviewed Apr 25, 2013
Interview Details – There was a 1 hour phone interview with hiring manager. If that goes well, it was followed by a 2 hour times programming test. That went well and was invited for on-site interview. It was 4 technical interviews. 1 was with a iOS developer, lunch interview with managers, Android concepts with 2 Android Engineers, 1 with product manager and last one with two Test Engineers
Interview Question – OOPs concepts Answer Question
No Offer – Interviewed in San Francisco, CA – Reviewed Apr 24, 2013
Interview Details –
Applied online.
Received call from interviewer for initial screen a month and a half later. Was asked about my past experiences and told more about the role.
Was told they wanted to move me to next steps of speaking with the hiring manager. After that it would be an on-site interview with a number of people.
Interview Question – None Answer Question
No Offer – Interviewed in San Francisco, CA Mar 2013 – Reviewed Apr 23, 2013
Interview Details – I received a referral to apply to the internship. Submitted my resume and received a quick reply for a phone interview. Interview was very simple. Basically had to explain past work experience and why I was interested in Salesforce.
Interview Question – None. Answer Question
Pros:
- Flexibility to choose what you work on and how you work.
- Working on cutting edge techs.
- No nonsense management, you just have to work and rest everything would be taken care of.
- Talent is acknowledged and rewarded.
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