Salesforce.com Member of Technical Staff Interview Questions & Reviews

Interview Details – very standard process, the only difference is there is a coding interview of 2 hours and it is decent. Not of the level of interviewstreet, it is much simple than that.

Nothing very simple questions on Java, couple of them on data structures and algos. One interview is full on UI even if you never worked on it, they will expect it. One of SQL and database

Negotiation Details – did not negotiate. you should negotiate very hard. increaments sucks here if you want to take the job make sure your salary is good for next 2 yrs

Interview Details – I was asked by a friend to join a salesforce hiring event in Seattle. After chatting with a few teams, a technical screen was scheduled with a manager who was not the hiring manager. The technical screen was on data structures, algorithms and testing at power with a number of top companies.
I was invited to the onsite interview in a couple of days. The travel arrangements were adequate and I began the interviews with a 2 hour coding test. An hour on the computer and another hour in discussion. The computer does not get internet access. The questions were tricky but standard Data structures - substring, three number sum etc. The next round was a lunch interview with the Hiring manager, it was a hard time to make her understand a different view to testing. I recommend not to go this route but instead agree :). Then there was a round with 2 senior folks on design patterns, OOPs, coding. Followed by a round with 2 fairly young engineers. This was supposed to be on testing but the interviewers lacked experience and this was a very abstract round. This was followed by another round with a hiring manager.
Overall, the experience was fine except the fact that they did not have either a specific position or a mature interviewing panel. They were just trying to hire a good profile.

Interview Details – Had a call with Hiring Manager, asked pretty basics Java questions. Manager was very friendly and to the point. I was then asked to take 2 hours timed programming interview, they insisted to keep that on weekday during normal working hours, not sure why. The question asked was good, not the regular data structure problems like BFS, traversals, etc. The question felt more like a school assignment, where you were given a scenario and you had to implement/solve the problem using commonly used techniques.
I failed to finish it in two hours and got a reject 2 days later.

Interview Details – I was contacted by an Engineer on the backend/core team. Was asked a few questions around distributed systems, scalability and reliability consideration while designing distributed systems. Also asked a few general Java and data structures related questions.

Interview Details – The interview process began with a phone interview with the recruiter. They (along with everyone else in the process), were incredibly friendly and easy to work with. The second phone interview was a simple half hour get to know you with the hiring manager. This was followed by a coding test that was completed remotely. The timeline for completing the test was a little short, but it was actually pretty fun. The final interview that I made it too was an in person panel interview where we discussed my technical experience. It was at this point that it was clear I did not have the technical skills to move forward, but overall it was a very positive experience.