J'ai postulé via un recruteur. Le processus a pris 5 semaines. J'ai passé un entretien chez Salesforce (San Francisco, CA) en oct. 2017
Entretien
Unpleasant experience. All interview processing is informal and recruiter is not responding. I've got phone calls from their recruiters a couple of times. They walked through with me about compensation and initiate with a phone call with hiring manager. Some very basic technical questions, and they sent me a code assignment and I did it. Then once I got on site interview, all process looked good except no body came back and said result. After I reached out the recruiter that he sent back an email said they're very impressed by me but they lost headcount. The second time is almost same, except they asked me do code assignment and never came back again. Then I did the same thing ask again and after two weeks they reply with although they're very impressed by my background but they want to move to other candidates. I guess I should never try this company again since they're so bad at recruitment also I can see how mess up it can be if you go interview like this kind of company, it will waste too much time, not mentioning you may spend whole day onsite for nothing
The technical interview was much tougher than I anticipated. I faced a DSA question related to word searches that required optimizing a brute-force approach with a Trie. It was intense, but the practice I’d done on PracHub the week before really helped solidify my understanding of the problem-solving techniques. The behavioral round felt lighter, focusing on teamwork and project experience. After a couple of days, I received an offer, which I happily accepted. Overall, it was a challenging yet rewarding experience.
Questions d'entretien [1]
Question 1
Word Search II - given an m x n board of characters and a list of words, return all words that can be formed from sequentially adjacent cells; had to optimize the brute-force backtracking with a Trie to pass the time limit
The interview process started with an online coding assessment that included DSA and problem-solving questions. After clearing the test, I had two technical interview rounds focused on data structures, OOPs concepts, DBMS, and project discussion. The final round was with the hiring manager where they asked about teamwork, problem solving, and career goals. The interviewers were professional and the process was smooth overall.
Went through 3 rounds. First round was a technical interview - it was a take home assessment. I didn't pass the test cases but still went through to the next round. The onsite had 1 behavioral, 1 system design, and 1 technical Leetcode style interview. It was in person on a whiteboard.