Salesforce SMTS | Interview Experience | Rejected

Round 1: In 1st week of December 2025

Q1. Given a 7 character string with each character being 0-9 or #. Ex "345##21". This string represents total hours worked by a worker in a week. You are also given a number N = Total hours the worker needs to work in a week. You need to return all possible strings such that total hours equal N. eg. Answer for S="345##21", N=17 Ans: ["3450221", "3452021", "3451121"]

Some behavioral questions were also there.

Round 2 (In Office on saturday): Q1. HLD of Metric Collection system: I had never seen design of this, or neither I work with such systems. So Based on the requirements I made it the best I could.

Q2. LLD of Spotify Was asked class diagrams only. I made it and there wore some questions on how password is actually stored by BCrypt which I didnt know. Some other questions I dont remember.

Both were done on the whiteboard.

I did good In my opinion based on what I had studied. But I lacked depth in HLD round, as I never worked on such things and my answers were mostly theoretical

Verdict: Rejected

Interview experience was good. But recruitment team could use some training. The in office hiring drive was poorly planned. They took 4 hours to tell me I was rejected. Some people left without knowing their result due to the delays. They kept asking people to stay in the same conference room with an aggresive tone (do they think we are kids?). He should try to stay in the same room for 4 hours without anything to do with random strangers. They offered Breakfast and lunch in office, both were bad. I hope they serve better food to employees on workdays.