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      Backend Software Engineer -Mid-level/Senior Interview

      Sep 7, 2023
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      Tel Aviv-Yafo
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I applied through an employee referral. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Salesforce (Tel Aviv-Yafo) in Aug 2023

      Interview

      The interview process consists of 5 stages: 1. 30-minute call with the HR recruiter to discuss a match to the position and the company. 2. 30-minute call with VP engineering - get to know each other and have a technical discussion about my experience and the team challenges, mostly personal questions regarding current and previous rules and challenges. 3. 1.5-hour live coding interview with 2 senior engineers. 4. 1.5-hour design interview with a senior engineer. 5. 45 minutes of personal and a bit of technical questions with a director. It wasn't an easy process and differently takes a lot of time and effort. I was disappointed especially as I passed all the first 4 stages. The last stage was meant to be personal and get to know me in an on-site interview, but during the interview, the group manager asked a design question which we discussed for 10 minutes at a high level and I gave a good solution for solving it, but clearly the hiring manager decided that my design skills are not enough for this position, something that I think wasn't fair as you can't assess design capabilities based on 10 minutes discussion (worth mentioning that he didn't explain the solution that he would have expected so I really don't understand why I was rejected).

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      The call with the R&D VP: personal question about my work and challenges and how I got over them... The live coding interview: Write Java code for implementing a system with multiple databases representing faculties from different universities, where each student is described in one DB. The system will receive a large amount of data on students' IDs and their faculties and needs to fetch the data from the scattered databases efficiently. The design interview: 1. Design how to add UPDATE/DELETE to a DB that only has INSERT capabilities. 2. Design a system that has 3 data storage instances (DB, S3, and data warehouse), and needs to get an "export all" trigger from the user and then zip all the available user data from the different 3 storage instances and send a URL to the user where they can find the exported data. The director interview: The final interview was meant to be personal as I said, and the main intention of it was to meet me in person and give me the opportunity to explore the office as well. Actually, the 45-minute interview included also a small design question where you need to design a microservice that fetches data from different providers (like Facebook and Twitter..) using API calls and then extracts the data into reports for the customer (actually this is one of the systems of Salesforce called Dataroma)
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