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Built from 1 candidate report with 2 first-hand accounts, covering 2021-22.

Hiring process

2021-22 · Internship

  1. 1

    Coding test

    Coding round
    HackerRank60 min3 questionsmixedeliminatory

    number theory · strings · arrays · pair counting

    Two medium, one hard. Every round is knock-out; a week gap to revise afterwards.

  2. 2

    Technical interview

    Technical interview 1
    48 mineliminatory

    projects · OOP · sorting · stacks · recursion · arrays · tries · magic square

    45-50 minutes, two coding questions plus OOP.

  3. 3

    Technical interview

    Technical interview 2
    48 mineliminatory

    arrays · two pointers · XOR

  4. 4

    Managerial interview

    Hiring manager / HR round
    30 mineliminatory

    company knowledge · conflict handling · motivation · library system design · rotated sorted array search

    One account describes a half-hour HR round; another a hiring manager round mixing design, search and HR questions.

Advice from candidates

3 pieces of advice, in their own words. Names removed.

  • Practice all standard Qs on leetcode.

    general · 2021-22

  • Before the interview, study a bit about Salesforce.

    interview · 2021-22

  • Interviewers are nice and friendly. You can freely ask questions to them in case the problem statement isn't clear. Also don't keep quiet for too long. Explain your thought process and the interviewer helps out if you are stuck.

    interview · 2021-22

Question patterns reported

The kind of problem, not the problem itself. Our practice questions are written to match these patterns.

  • Codingsum of gcd times size over subsets with gcd above one
  • Codingfirst occurrence of word picking alternate characters
  • Codingcount pairs with sum divisible by 60
  • Technicalbest sorting choice by situation, then code it
  • Technicalvalidate bracket expression, stack then recursion
  • Technicalsingle buy-sell stock profit
  • Technicalgroup anagrams with dictionary
  • Technicalconstruct matrix with equal row and column sums
  • Technicaldata structure for fast insert and search
  • Technicalunique triplets summing to a target
  • Technicalmaximum subarray XOR
  • Managerialclass and data structure design for a library system
  • Managerialsearch in rotated sorted array