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Updated Apr 26, 2012 – Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates.

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Received and Accepted Offer

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

Phone screen by a recruiter. Followed by a phone interview with the hiring manager. I was then invited to give a presentation and was interviewed by 4 people.

Interview Questions

You're on vacation and you need to provide your boss with input for a presentation to the CEO. What do you do?

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Other Details

I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, a Presentation and a Background Check.

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Received and Declined Offer

Interviewed Aug 2009 in San Francisco, CA (took a day)

The interview process itself is OK. The problem I am having is a few days later their HR called and told me most of the panel members have very positive opinions toward me and she "just need to collect a couple more feedback". And couple days later she said the group I originally interviewed with "had just lost the headcount", and "whether I would consider an opportunity at another group". Seems I was the candidate B for that group and candidate A had just accepted an offer. If that's the case why got my hopes up while in fact a guy was in front of me? Also the group manager I had lunch with had an annoying habit of staring at me constantly.

Interview Questions

a 2 hours programming exercise with a simple file system command simulator

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Reason for Declining

Has another offer. Does not want to consider another group at salesforce and more delays.

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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Group/Panel Interview.

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Interviewed and No Offer

Interviewed Jul 2009 in San Francisco, CA (took 1 week)

This is a special interview where part of the team I have met before had a good impression of me so they invited me back for a full interview, with a different set of people on the panel. There is a two hour programming tests where you are expected to build a Java class that can satisfy the requirement as specified on a 4 page document. Advice to test takes please do not spend too much time on reading the requirement at the first time, since most likely you will need to come back and review it again. The problem might look simple but it could take the full allotted 2 hours to finish it. My 1:1 sessions started after the programming tests. I had 5 interviewers plus another person taking me for lunch(no interview questions but not sure if part of evaluation).