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Updated Oct 13, 2011 – Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates.

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Interviewed and No Offer

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

Had an interview with one person, very nice interviewer.
Wasn't stressful at all.

Interview Questions

Asked various behavioral questions.
Asked if I was familiar with certain technologies.

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I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.

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Interviewed and No Offer

Interviewed May 2011 (took 2 weeks)

I was contacted by HR and asked for the latest resume. HR got back to me after 2 weeks and arranged phone screen with young kid. Kid was extremely rude. He was more interested in showing what he knows rather than what i know. May be he might not have enough interview taking experience. Interview was avg and I did well. I was told at the end that he will give good feedback and they may bring me onsite. After 2 weeks i did not hear back from HR and he replied after few weeks that I am not good fit. Very unorganized and bad experience. Overall its good company buy my experience was horrible.

Interview Questions

Explain Strategy Pattern.

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Explain way to optimize SQL

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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview.

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Overall Positive Experience

Received and Accepted Offer

Interviewed Jul 2008 in San Francisco, CA (took 2 weeks)

A friend referred me, they give out bonus for referrals so I gave my resume to him and he passed it on. I got a call from a recruiter who setup an hour long phone screen with a manager. The manager talked to me for a bit about what salesforce does and what his team does in particular, so I got the idea I was interviewing for his team in particular.

We talked about my current job a bit, how aggressively I was looking for a new one, and then he asked a few general conceptual uestions that anybody who had real experience would be able to answer. Then the recruiter set up a day a week later for me to come in and be interrviewed in person.

The all day interview consisted of 3 interviews with other developers, lunch with the manager, and a programming test. The test itself was quite easy, seems like it was more just to ensure that I actually had the experience I said I had. Lunch was good and we talked a lot about why I was looking for a new job and what the team was looking for. They also made clear that if it wasnt a fit for their team but they liked me that they would pass my resume on to other teams.

I was asked a lot of questions, from whiteboarding code to conceptual stuff. One of the interviewers asked real hard questions and we actually got into some interesting discussion, I guess that sealed the deal. I was given an offer a week later.

Interview Questions

One of the interviewers asked me to write two algorithms for parsing xml, one that was as memory efficient as possible, the other that was as optimized as possible.

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Negotiation Details

I didn't negotiate, they have all the standard benefits and were offering me more than I was making, so I took the job.

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I got the interview through an Employee Referral and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Skills Test.

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Interviewed and No Offer

Interviewed Oct 2009 (took a day)

I submitted my resume online to Salesforce. About a month later Sales force conducted on campus interviews for new grads.

The interview was 1 on 1 with s developer who introduced himself and immediately jumped into technical questions. The first few were on specifics of Java and the later ones were more algorithmic ones that I had to write code for.

I wasn't given much time to figure out the algo questions and as soon as I didn't get the questions immediately the interviewer nudged me in the right direction. This was probably my downfall.

I'd suggest knowing your basic interviews coding questions down pat before interviewing here.