Status: -Grad Position: SDE Intern - at Salesforce Location: / Date of Offer: 19th July

Online Assessment [ 90 mins - 3 coding questions ]

• 1 Hard DP question
• 2 medium level questions

The questions were long and they had a lot of story and it took time to read and understand the question. I solved 2 questions with all test cases passed and the third question with 2 test cases passed.

Online Interviews [ 3 Rounds ]

2 Technical - 45 mins 1 Hiring Manager Round - 30 mins

Technical Round - 1st The interviewer shared a Hackerrank Codepair link. The First question was - Two Sum (from Leetcode). This is a very easy question and I wrote the code and explained it to him simultaneously. Second Question - This was also an easy question where an array was given and I had to find out the first occurrences of the elements (something similar). I gave him a brute force approach then later optimized it using an unordered map. He was quite happy and it passed all the test cases.

OOPS Questions [ 15 mins] He asked me to explain encapsulation and abstraction with real life examples. Benefits of OOPS, How does a map work and the internal implementation of a map as I had used it in my coding question. I was also asked if I have used an abstract class in my project but I didn't use it.

Technical Round - 2nd

First Question - Balanced Parenthesis [ the question had only one type of brackets] input - (())( output - false I explained my solution and wrote the code.

Second Question - This was a debugging problem and required the approach of multilevel inheritance. I got confused for a bit but the interviewer gave me a hint and then I answered her questions correctly.

Third Question - Given an array all the occurrences in the array should be unique. input - [1,2,2,3,3,3] output - true I gave her multiple approaches involving an unordered map, set ..and I wrote code for 2 solutions. Overall she was satisfied and asked me about the time and space complexities of each solution.

Hiring Manager Round - 30 mins Questions I was asked were -

• Introduce Yourself
• Give a brief about your projects
• Why Salesforce
• How were your previous two interviews
• Can you tell me a moment when you think you did something very innovative
• I can see a lot of CP achievements on your resume..can you tell me about your CP journey
• What are the values that you follow in your life
• How was lockdown for you..are you enjoying offline college
• What do you want to become in the future
• What are your strengths and weaknesses

I was selected for a 2 month [May-July ] internship and the result was announced on the same day.

Overall Review-

• Salesforce doesn't focus on CP candidates and the questions asked in the interview are mostly easy.
• They focus a lot on their values so prepare for it well.