Solicité el puesto a través de la escuela superior o la universidad. El proceso duró 3 días. Acudí a una entrevista en Salesforce (Pittsburgh, PA) en feb 2017
Entrevista
It was an on-campus interview. There were two sets of interviews. The first interviewer had a background in database and therefore asked me to troubleshoot a slowness in website access for a two tier architecture (host---web-server---database). Having no background in database I did some basic troubleshooting. Post that there were a few networking questions, eg: TCP/IP.
Next I was asked to write the codes for the following:
-balanced BST from a sorted array
-reversal of a linked list
The next interview was with the VP of the network infrastructure sub-division. That round was only a discussion about what the team does.
I was offered the job during the second interview.
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.
Preguntas de entrevista [1]
Pregunta 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.