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Updated Feb 10, 2012 – Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates.
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Intern at Salesforce.com
Posted Dec 6, 2011
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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 Dec 2011 (took 5 days)
The ad on the career site was very broad. The interviewer called late and it was obvious that he/she hadn't looked at my resume. I asked questions about projects that I would be involved with and he/she didn't know. Also, interviewer didn't even work in the building that I would be working in. I wondered why the team chose this person to do the interview because he/she had no knowledge about the work and had no knowledge about me as a candidate. I'm sure this person is a good worker, but this was a less than satisfactory interview.
I think Salesforce.com would benefit from being more specific with their requirements in their job listings. They don't seem to know what they want. It would also be nice if the person interviewing seemed genuinely interested in filling the position. Genuinely interested would mean that they had read your resume and asked about your experience. Also, the interviewer should probably know something about the position they are trying to fill.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.
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Engineering at Salesforce.com
Posted Dec 3, 2011
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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 in San Francisco, CA (took 3 days)
I had two one hour phone screens followed by an in-person interview. The phone screens were fairly rigorous and included a fizzbuzz. The interviewers were friendly and professional, and they squeezed a lot of questions into the hour. I received feedback within 48 hours of the first interview, and after the second interview I was told they would bring me in for an in-person interview as soon as the hour ended.
Afterwards, they told me that they had high failure rates for the in-person interview, so they instituted a new process of requiring two phone screens instead of one, and shortening the in-person interview from 6 hours to 4. I don't know if this is company-wide, but I like the system.
The in-person interview was a combination of panel interviews (e.g. two engineers asking me questions) and the more senior people did one-on-one. They asked questions specific to the domain knowledge on my resume as well as some general questions specific to their own environment. There were also some algorithm questions/problems. Most of the time I was on my feet at the whiteboard. The interview was very thorough, no inappropriate questions were asked. Some of the questions/puzzles were quite creative and I enjoyed working through them. Had a great time and wished the interview would last a bit longer as the puzzles were interesting and had multiple levels and/or multiple solutions. I think part of the interview process was to see how far you can get in the time allotted.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Group/Panel Interview.
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Senior Software Engineer at Salesforce.com
Posted Nov 9, 2011 — 3 of 4 people found this helpful
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2.0
Easy Interview
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed May 2011 in San Francisco, CA (took a day)
salesforce has something like 700+ jobs they're advertising, but they're not really hiring. The job ads let them cast a wider net, get a sense of what type of talent is out there, but hiring is very very slow. Similar to Google but more disorganized. It took more than 2 months from my first contact with their recruiter to my onsite interview. I don't believe the company is really growing, they have work for which they wish they could hire but hiring is not a priority or considered critical for growth. So one could be wasting a lot of time waiting on them to make up their mind.
Phone interview was 45 min long, we went over some parts of resume, some technical (fairy easy) questions. Interviewer didn't seem to know what to ask, so it was a pretty random back and forth, conversation style discussion. He went onto to explain what his group does and how he and his team interact with others. No real structure, very adhoc and no process.
Full day interview onsite, all 1:1 with technical folks and senior managers. Again a situation where none of interviewers seem to know what to ask, the first interviewer started with random basic technical questions , mostly abstract. The questions were vague, and he didn't ask them clearly so it was hard to understand where he was going. The whole session was unpleasant, and ridiculous ... it made me lose interest.
The next interviews were with folks with some industry experience but no one really senior. Questions on database basics, OS, Java, etc. A few wanted to discuss the same minor technical problem they had encountered earlier, not knowing I had already discussed it earlier with one of the interviewers. Again none of the interviewers didn't know what to ask, even from my resume. Most seemed unsure and vague, which was disconcerting.
Their whole environment is build on top of this 1 Oracle db table (data multi-tenancy they call it), and they have layers of Java to marshal data in and between the different layers and the Oracle table. They make outlandish claims like what they' ve built is the one of most complex Java apps in the world while it's a pretty run of mill, lipsticked web CRUD app with convoluted tricks to make up for all the poor arch decision they made so far. Their former cto gave a talk at a qcon conference, explaining how they got into this mess. You can see the talk on infoq.com They have lots of ex-Oracle folks whose job is to curate and maintain this one table. They're not working on any real interesting technical problems, which probably explains why hiring is slow.
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I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, a Skills Test and a Personality Test.
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Solution Architect at Salesforce.com
Posted Nov 13, 2011
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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 Oct 2011 in Toronto, ON (Canada) (took 4+ weeks)
I was contract for an HR Interview which was followed by 4 Telephone Interviews. The interviews were both technical, situational and informative. The interviewees seemed honest and open. I was then flown in to for a group/panel interview in Toronto ( was originally planned for Atlanta) where I was asked to present on a pre-selected topic. To my surprise, the group had some other expectation in terms of the content and material. Nevertheless, the panel interview was followed a couple of phone interviews. I have not heard from them since. Kindda unprofessional I think. I do want to mention that they did reimburse the Interview expenses 3 weeks following the trip to Toronto - the bank transfer fee.. :)... The recruitment process tells a lot about the company in general...
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a Group/Panel Interview and a Presentation.
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Sales Representative at Salesforce.com
Posted Nov 13, 2011
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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 Apr 2010 in San Francisco, CA (took 2 days)
phone interview, group interview and then a presentation to senior management.
Negotiation Details
Little negotiations
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I got the interview through an Employee Referral and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a Group/Panel Interview, a Presentation and a Background Check.
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Strategy at Salesforce.com
Posted Nov 10, 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 Sep 2011 (took a day)
Phone screen with HR - easy enough, asked about myself etc. Very keen to find out if I'd been promoted while working in my previous roles. Asked a couple of behavioral questions like how do I evaluate potential employers, tell me about a time you worked with someone difficult.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Quality Engineer at Salesforce.com
Posted Nov 3, 2011
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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 Oct 2011 in San Francisco, CA (took 1 week)
Received a call from the recruiter to schedule a phone interview for Quality Engineer position in San Fransisco with a Technical Manager. After emailing back and forth regarding various date conflicts came to a common date for interview. At the time of interview got a call from recruiter that the manager got pulled in for a meeting so had to reschedule the interview again.
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Got a reject within 2 days as they said i did not have enough Java experience.
I did not like the technical manager attitude as he was kind of not very nice to talk.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Manager, Engineering at Salesforce.com
Posted Nov 2, 2011
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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 Sep 2011 (took 1+ week)
Prepare, Prepare, Prepare.
Phone interviews are 1 hour+. Will test on coding, testing, overall skills.
Onsite interviews are 6-7 hrs with 1:1 + group panel interviews.
Be prepared to answer behavioral, analytical, testing and problem solving questions.
Prior to interview and post interview Recruiters will be in constant loop.
Recruiters do not provide interview feedback.
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I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, a Group/Panel Interview, an IQ/Intelligence Test, a Skills Test and a Personality Test.
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Customer Success Manager at Salesforce.com
Posted Oct 18, 2011 — 4 of 4 people found this helpful
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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 Sep 2011 (took 3 months)
I initially had a phone screen with the internal recruiter, who suggested I have a one on one interview with the hiring manager. The following week, the recruiter informed me that the hiring manager wanted to meet me in person. Aproximately 2 weeks later I was asked to complete a presentation for a "Case Study". He emailed me the details of the case study and I spent seven days preparing for it. Approximately 2 weeks later I was advised by phone that the role had been given to an internal candidate.
A week after this I was contacted and advised that the company had increased head count and that because they were very interested in my background they wanted me back for a further interview. The following Monday I arrived at their office for a Video hook up with their VP and Hiring Manager to be advised that the meetig was cancelled and re scheduled for later that week.
Having waited 3 weeks after this video conference interview I was advised that I was to partcipate in a telephone conference call with their MD of UK who managed the Asia Pacific region. Following 2 postponements the date was finally set. O the day of the final conference call I sat on the phone for ten minutes waiting for the MD to join the conference call. When it was apparent he would not show I rang the internal HR and they advised they had just received a email cancelling the conference call.
However, the next week came and went with no update. The following week, I sent an email to the HR recruiter and did not receive a response. A few days later, the HR recruiter advised he found my email in his Junk Mail and that he was still trying to arrange another conference call. Following another 2 weeks I sent another email which bounced back with HR recruiter on anual leave. When I rang the HR department I was advised that all roles had been filled.
Having spent 3 months going through 6 interviews including a case study and then being asked to attend a failed conference call and then to be told that there are no jobs anyway?It is shocking to me that this is the way that Salesforce.com does business. I guess I should be relieved since I imagine this is symptomatic of how they treat their employees and customers.
This would be the worst process I have ever come across for the way candidates are treated.
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I got the interview through an Employee Referral and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, a Group/Panel Interview and a Presentation.
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QA Engineer at Salesforce.com
Posted Oct 23, 2011
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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 Sep 2011 in San Francisco, CA (took 2 days)
Got a call during the Campus recruiting process. The first interview was a technical 1:1 interview. Questions on calculating no. of times a word repeats in a text, reversing a linklist and basic Java questions.
He asked me to write cases to test an Elevator
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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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