Salesforce.com QA Engineer Interview Questions & Reviews

Interview Details – Submitted resume online (since I didn't see the campus recruiter on the campus career fair) and get an email about one month later. Scheduled a first phone interview with a LMTS of quality engineer. The interview is scheduled for 45 mins but actually last for only 30 mins. Discussed some question on my past experience from resume and one simple array processing coding question. Then I was ask to do some test on the code. Get another email that evening and scheduled a second phone interview which is one week later. The second interview is with the manager of the team I'm going to work for. It last for full 45 mins, discuss about one of my past project and especially focused on how I find problems and test it. Then a classic brainstorm question was asked. Get a offer that evening from a recruiter's phone call. The recruiter team from salesforce is very helpful during the entire process.

Reason for Declining – I don't know why I applied QA, because I'm more interest in being a developer. So I accepted another developer position from another company. If this is a developer position from Salesforce, I might consider it.

Interview Details – Recruiter contacted me by e-mail to set up a phone interview with a QA architect. This is the first time I know there exist architect for QA job.

The interviewer who called me has a weird accent and she can't speak English very clearly so I kept asking her to repeat her questions. This interviewer provided too much information that is not related to the question she was asking and I was mislead. When I told her I was having problem understanding what she was looking for. She gave me more information just to make the situation worse without clarifying anything. At last, she got impatient and literally yielded at me over the phone.

When she wanted me to write some code on collaedit.com (a online editor), she read the URL to me character by character, which is hard to follow because of her accent. When I asked her if she could send me the link through e-mail, she said she doesn't her laptop with her. Finally she sent me the link and I finished the coding.

The whole process is very unpleasant. I felt this interviewer is not an effective communicator because she couldn't provide the right information to describe her question. When she tried to clarify, she just made the whole thing even more confusing. Also her attitude was really bad because she practically yielded at me. This was rude and unprofessional. At the end of the interview, she didn't mention the next step and hung up the phone very quickly. Again, the attitude was very unfriendly.

I think I probably fail the phone interview. But based on what happened, I already decided not to consider this company at all.

Interview Details – very generic questions- out of book.
Anybody who prepares for an interview can crack these.
Interviewer was 15 mins late- FAIL.
Some interviewers were friendly, one was highly rude, and pretty much implied that I won;t make it.
(oh well, they hired me!)
They had 5 rounds- programming question, manager 1/1, another manager 1/1(that didn't make sense but whatever), then some database and algos.
Questions could easily be searched for online.

Negotiation Details – No I did not negotiate the offer because I thought it was good.
I think other companies are offering the same, if not better compensation.
It makes sense to have another job offer in hand, and then negotiate with the HR here.
Oh, and definitely negotiate on the position, because it is hard to get promoted once you're in.
Salesforce will go to any lengths to hire you and keep you happy, because once you get an offer, that means 99 other were declined, they don't want to go through that whole process again, so ... play your cards right!

Interview Details – 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

Interview Details – I am waiting for the next level interview

Interview Details – I handed out my resume to on of their recruiter on campus here at the UIUC

a few day letter I received an e-mail asking me to go and complete a profile on their website.

After that they ask me my availability to schedule a phone interview.
The phone interview was successful. They invite me for an on-site interview in San Francisco

Interview Details – Interviewer told me to tell about resume, projects?
It took 10 mins.
Then he asked have you done any Testing project?
And I told him about my testing projects.
He asked me how much you rate yourself in java.....scale 1-10.
I answered 6-7, as I am not an expert.
Basically he was going through my resume and asking things from my resume.

He started asking Java,

1. what difference between abstract class and interface?

2. Arrays and vectors?

3.String and String buffer?

4. Object oriented concepts like inheritance, polymorphism..............?

5. Advantages of OO?

6. Describe synchronization...........?

7. 2 questions on threading?

8. few more question o java, very basic questions.

Then he gave me two things to test?
1. string
2. vending machine.

Interview Details – After applying to the position online, I got a call from the recruiter within an hour. She set up a phone interview with the hiring manager for the following week. My phone interview was pretty straightforward; we talked about my background and what I did at my current job etc. There was a coding question over the online editing tool. I had to write a function to return if a passed number was divisible by some number.

I thought it went pretty well and he said something about the next step etc... A few days later I heard back from the recruiter, and she said she was waiting on the feedback from the phone interviewer. Then a week later, the same story. They told me they were waiting on the feedback for 3 times in total. That was that. I guess they didn't want to move forward with the next step. The next thing I got was, some automatic survey email to ask me to rank the interview process.

Interview Details – Telephonic itnerview
Skills test - practical java programming test
1:1 with few ppl