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Updated Feb 10, 2012 – Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates.
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Customer Success Executive at Salesforce.com
Posted Feb 6, 2012 — 1 of 1 people found this helpful
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3.0
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Jan 2012 (took 3 weeks)
Initial phone interview with recruiter, phone interview with CFL team member.
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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 Group/Panel Interview.
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Engineering at Salesforce.com
Posted Feb 10, 2012
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Apr 2010 (took 3 days)
good.
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Negotiation Details
You should be really good at negotiating.This is the right time for negotiation.Once after joining, the changes would be very minimal.
Other Details
I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview, a Skills Test, a Personality Test and a Background Check.
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Senior Renewals Manager at Salesforce.com
Posted Feb 2, 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 Feb 2012 (took a day)
I was referred by an internal employee for this interview. The recruiter called me and basically started asking about each bullet point in the Description section of the job posting. We got to the 3rd section and she said "I have a hunch; how much is your total income right now?" I let her know and she said that the target salary was much lower than my current income. I really appreciated her being upfront so we didn't waste each other's time. It was good to know that I needed to be looking at interviewing for a Principal Renewals Manager job instead.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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QA Engineer at Salesforce.com
Posted Jan 30, 2012 — 1 of 2 people found this helpful
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3.0
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Feb 2010 (took a day)
Telephonic itnerview
Skills test - practical java programming test
1:1 with few ppl
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Other Details
The interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a Skills Test and a Background Check.
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Services at Salesforce.com
Posted Dec 29, 2011 — 1 of 1 people found this helpful
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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 Nov 2011 (took 3 months)
Started with an phone interview with recruiter, followed by a phone interview with Senior SME, followed by 1:1 with local hiring manager. All were positive and of a conversational style. i had to draw up a project plan for the a typical customer engagement. This was then followed by panel interview where I was given a half page brief on selling the salesforce value proposition and the business value to a board of c-level executives. Finally a couple of skype interviews with senior stakeholders to check suitability for position. Finally an offer was made and accepted.
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Negotiation Details
I made it clear from the outset my expectations for acceptable package and this was met in the first offer. I would suggest you are open and transparent on you expectations.
Other Details
I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, a Group/Panel Interview and a Presentation.
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Senior Software Engineer at Salesforce.com
Posted Dec 20, 2011 — 1 of 1 people found this helpful
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Sep 2011 (took 4 weeks)
It was a typical software interview with questions on algorithms, time complexity analysis, and database query questions. A professional interview process although one interviewer was really freaky in his demeanor. There were hardly any behavioral type questions, which I appreciated very much...all the interviewers seemed happy with their jobs at the company..
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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 and a Skills Test.
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Software Quality Engineer at Salesforce.com
Posted Dec 19, 2011
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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 Dec 2011 in San Francisco, CA (took 2 days)
This was the third or second round interview, Engineer called me asked some general question and also did the online coding.
(1) what is the current GPA?
(2) what is your preferred coding language?
(3) when did you graduate?
(4) what cs related courses you took before? any course related to Operating system?
(5) which database are you familiar with?
Interview Questions
There's employee table has "ID", "NAME" and "POSITION" inside,
(2) the number of the employee in this tabke?
(3) the number of the employee whose position is manager?
(4) the numbers of the employee whose position are "manger", "director", "PM"?
(2) Difference between ArrayList and vector?
(3) Difference between String and StringBuffer?
(4) Difference between StringBuilder and StringBuffer?
(5) what is hashmap? is it synchronized or not?
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a Skills Test.
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Account Executive at Salesforce.com
Posted Dec 14, 2011
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2.0
Easy Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Aug 2011 in San Francisco, CA (took 1+ week)
I applied to Salesforce online and separately through an internal employee referral. The Salesforce HR department was very prompt in responding to my online application even before my friend had a chance to submit his referral. A phone interview was quickly scheduled for the same week. The phone interview was pretty straight forward and went fine. I did not get an in person interview. My best guess is that my W2 did not hit the requirements they were looking for in an AE.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Performance Engineer at Salesforce.com
Posted Dec 13, 2011
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Dec 2011 in San Francisco, CA (took 5 days)
It was quick, 1 phone screen interview, after that onsite interviews(6 interviews onsite). Questions weren't too difficult but not very easy as well had to think, mostly related to performance in 3-tier architecture find areas that can be bottlenecks, some OO concepts, database indexing and sql queries. Overall the interview questions are position based, not very difficult although the test is tedious to finish but not impossible. With some Java programming practice one can clear the interviews.
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Negotiation Details
Yes, I had an offer so was able to negotiate.
Other Details
The interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.
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Sales Representative at Salesforce.com
Posted Dec 7, 2011
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2.0
Easy Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Jun 2011 in Toronto, ON (Canada) (took 4+ weeks)
Typically you will get a call from one of their recruiters to screen you and make sure you at least know a little about selling and the company. From here you will likely go in for 1.5 hours of interviews (3, 30 minute interviews back to back to back.) You will have a good idea if you had a positive interview at the end of these three...management is usually pretty easy to read.
Definitely do your research about the company and know some of their product/values.
If you get/accept the offer be prepared for nothing but headaches from a company called HireRight for the background check (they asked me to scan my degree which was framed and larger than an average scanner anyway.)
Interview Questions
Negotiation Details
No negotiation.
Other Details
The interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Background Check.
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