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Updated Apr 13, 2012 – Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates.

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Interviewed Mar 2010 in San Francisco, CA (took 2 weeks)

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.

Interview Questions

Played a game of 20 questions!

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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!

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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.

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Overall Neutral Experience

Interviewed and No Offer

Interviewed Jan 2012 (took a day)

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.

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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.

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Overall Positive Experience

Received and Accepted Offer

Interviewed Feb 2010 (took a day)

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

Interview Questions

Tell me abt urself

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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a Skills Test and a Background Check.

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3.0

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Overall Neutral Experience

Interviewed and No Offer

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

Interview Questions

How to reverse a Linklist

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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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3.0

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Overall Neutral Experience

Interviewed and No Offer

Interviewed Sep 2011 in San Francisco, CA (took a day)

I am waiting for the next level interview

Interview Questions

Interviewer gave me an array of character and asked me to find first non-repeating character

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Difference between array and link list

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I will I test a vending machine.

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I got the interview through an Employee Referral and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.

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Overall Positive Experience

Interviewed and No Offer

Interviewed Nov 2010 in San Francisco, CA (took 2 weeks)

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 Questions

I was first given a programing test. The test consisted of Java string class: MyString. 2 funtions definition were given. I had to write the code for two function without changing the remaining code.

One function was supposed to make a lexical comparison between an input string and a the string stored in the class.

The second function was supposed to find the occurrence of the input string in the string stored in the MyString class.

Two JUnit tests were also to be written to test the functions implement and the test had to pass.

All had to be done in an hour.

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the second step was to write a function that would detect if a sorted array contains two integer that sum up to 7. And then improve your code so that the array is accessed with only one iteration.

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Another question was: what's the difference between an abstract class and an interface. Can a class inherit both from an abstract class and an interface at the same time?

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The other steps consisted of how would I test a new "copy" feature added to an application

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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a Group/Panel Interview, a Presentation and a Skills Test.

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Overall Negative Experience

Interviewed and No Offer

Interviewed Nov 2010 (took a day)

I got the interview after I applied from the website, then I was contacted by a HR and set up an interview one week later. I prepared some QA questions, including how to do a real test case, but the interviewer more focused on the classes I've taken and what I've learned from that course. He did not concern about my working experience.

Though I thought I had answered all the questions, I still did not get a offer

Interview Questions

The difference between arraylist and linkedlist

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Describe about your classes you've taken

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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.

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Overall Positive Experience

Interviewed and No Offer

Interviewed Sep 2010 in San Francisco, CA (took a day)

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.

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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.

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Difficult Interview

Overall Neutral Experience

Interviewed and No Offer

Interviewed Sep 2010 (took a day)

There was a job fair in our campus, so I talked to the recruiter. I tell them that I am interested in quality assurance position and I had testing experience. The recruiter asked me to test a string input and I listed all the test cases that I could think of. Then she said can we meet tomorrow? so we had a interview in the next day. The QA interview will also ask technical questions like a SE interview, so practice basic questions, data structure questions.

Interview Questions

How do you think your java skill? rank from 1-5
database SQL skill? rank from 1-5

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What is polymorphism?
What is final keyword?

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Do you know Thread?How to implement a thread?
Please give me a common example of thread in java api
How could a thread wake up from a sleeping thread
How to test a feature with multiple treads?

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What is a tree?
What is a balance tree?

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How to remove HTML tags from a string
What the test cases of this feature
If you can only test one case, what is it?
If you can test two cases, what is the second one?

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Overall Positive Experience

Interviewed and No Offer

Interviewed Feb 2010 (took 2 weeks)

Was contacted by the recruiter, then he sent a questionnaire to fill out about experience and QA processes and point of views. Then had an interview that included technical questions, experience and cultural fit. At the end of the interview, the interviewer said that they will have me come for an on site interview. The on site was 4 interviews each interview with 2 Engineers: personal/culture fit over lunch, programming test on a laptop, QA interview and an interview about OOP and Data Structures. The recruiter was very good about providing information about what to expect from the process. Did not hear from them for 10 days so sent a follow up and received a response that they didn't think I am a fit for what they are currently looking for