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Salesforce Interview Experience (DSA-heavy, with twists)

I wanted to share my Salesforce interview journey.

Round 0 – Online Test (July)

• Gave an online HackerRank test
• 2 very standard LeetCode easy–medium problems
• Solved all test cases
• Was told it was for a hiring drive later that month
• Didn’t hear back

Round 1 – Hiring Manager Round (October | Virtual)

After ~2–3 months, HR reached out again.

• Position: Hyderabad team
• Duration: 45 minutes
• Expected: DSA
• Actual: Pure Hiring Manager round

Discussion topics:

• My experience in microservices
• Work with Redis, MongoDB
• Services I’ve built
• System flows and responsibilities
• Deep dive into what I actually do at work

👉 No coding, purely experience-based.

Round 2 – DSA Round (Virtual)

• LeetCode 3:
  • Longest Substring Without Repeating Characters
• I was out of DSA practice, so it took me ~40 minutes
• Remaining time:
  • Questions about Salesforce
  • Team structure
  • Role expectations
  • Location (Hyderabad) compatibility

No second DSA question due to time.

Silence Again

Didn’t hear back for a couple of weeks.

Restarted Process (Late November)

Recruiter called again:

• Hyderabad position might be closed
• New Bangalore hiring drive
• Process:
  • 1 DSA round
  • Then 2 more elimination rounds
  • Final in-person hiring drive

I agreed.

Round 3 – DSA (Restarted Process)

• 2 DSA questions

1️⃣ Time-Based Key-Value Store
👉 https://leetcode.com/problems/time-based-key-value-store/

• Interviewer was mainly interested in binary search understanding

2️⃣ String + Stack (Parentheses-based, medium)

Important part:

• I had forgotten standard templates
• Started from absolute basics
• Built logic step by step
• Didn’t rely on memorized solutions

📊 Surprisingly, this worked in my favor—the interviewer could clearly see my thought process.

Onsite Hiring Drive

Round 4 – LLD + DSA (2 Interviewers)

First 30 mins – LLD

• Simple problem
• Defined Java classes
• Methods
• Basic interactions between entities

Next 30 mins – DSA

• Merge intervals variant
• No recollection of exact problem
• Again:
  • Eliminated approaches that wouldn’t work
  • Reasoned from scratch
  • Narrowed down to the correct one

Honestly, not memorizing solutions but reasoning from first principles helped.

Round 5 – Hiring Manager

• Culture fit
• Ability to adapt to Salesforce engineering style
• Long-term interest
• Team alignment

Feedback for this round: 4/4

Final Verdict

✅ Selected

Key Takeaways

• You don’t always need to be in peak LeetCode mode
• Thinking clearly > memorized solutions
• Explaining why something won’t work matters a lot
• Salesforce interviews focus heavily on reasoning + fundamentals

Hope this helps someone going through a similar phase.
Feel free to ask questions 👍