TLDR : A pretty much f**d experience with Salesforce India interview. Don't waste your time with them if you are willing to do so. So I was contacted by one of the recruiters for SF India office. The first round was coding round. There were two interviewers. After a brief chit chat we started for the 'coding' part. First question was to reverse an integer. Well, to say the least I am pretty much decent in problem solving so it took hardly 2-3 minutes to tell the approach and solve it (with all the proper handling of the negative numbers, overflow cases etc). Next question was to find the first and last occurrence of a number in a sorted array. Which again I solved using binary search with a pretty much in depth discussion regarding the approach and tradeoffs! The other interviewer was pretty much a silent spectator and the one interviewer who was discussing the solution was pretty much convinced with the solution and optimizations. Then, after half an hour I got a call from the recruiter saying, "Your coding round didn't go well. Your coding skills were not up-to mark. There were lots of errors. Code wasn't optimized". I mean what the actual f**k! At this point I am not even able to comprehend what did the interviewer want from this round. What are the expectations? To code binary search and reverse an integer in assembly language or use punch cards? At least set straight your expectation so that I am ready with some assembly language, may be? Seriously, this was the most f***ed up experience I ever had! To anyone who is willing to spare some time to interview with these Jokers, please don't! I am not sure about other centers, but this experience in India location did really leave a bitter taste. @Salesforce #salesforce #interview #coding
Yeah, we really have some bad interviewers. Sorry for your experience. Which cloud did you interview for?
It was Marketing cloud and some CDP team if I heard it correctly.
Yes, CDP team is hiring these days! I’m so sorry to hear about your experience :( Something’s wrong about the interviewer and HRs these days at Salesforce — their quality has been top notch shit.
Ok. First time ?? I have been interviewing from last 2 months and believe me I have had much more weird experience with indian startups than u. Do u have a very good culture, wlb, in your company and a prominent legacy?? Wanted to destroy it? Open an office in India and hire a bunch of morons from India. Few weeks ago I had an interview from an indian starup the interviewer asked me to open the leetcode account and asked to filter all the unsolved questions then apply the "Hard" category filter and then he will say a random number and u will have to solve that question number u can't submit more than 3 times I mean u can only click submit button 3 times and Run& Test button 5 times.What a fucking sick interviewer and somehow if u clear all the interview u will be offered the same salary as current. I wish I can take legal actions against these morons for wasting my time and so much of effort. _____________________________________________ Update - A lot of people are asking the company name. It's "Mindtickle" in Pune. After cleaning all the round the recruiter reached out to me and asked my TC expections. I said I have an offer and they are offering me 43 base + 8 JB + some paper money espos. I asked for 45 base + 10 JB + ESOPs. Interview er said we can't offer u for this position I asked what's the budget he mentioned the same amount I am currently making at current job. I refused and said I can't join recruiter disconnected the call and again called me after 2 days to negotiate. He asked my expectations this time I said I will charge 50 base + 15 JB + espos he said why this much ur numbers were different earlier I said for wasting my time if u again come back after this call I will charge 60 base. He disconnected the call and didn't come back again :)
WTF! 😂 Name and shame the startup!
So much hate for India/Indian engineers!
I have had one of the most weirdest interview experiences in India. The reasons for rejects are usually unjustifiable and it lowers the confidence may be I did something wrong. Adobe - the interviewer himself told ok this round went good, then Recuriter told me, it didn’t go good so sorry. After 1 month I got call from Recuriter and told she got good reviews again, so you wanna apply again for different location. I said FO UBER- mandatory 3 rounds are there. 1 know 1 round really went good and second round went good but not very good. 3rd round got rescheduled 5 times then Recuriter told ok sorry I don’t think it makes sense to have interview as you didn’t do good. After 1.5 month I was reached out by same interviewer, hey shall we resume interviews or give it for new team🤦🏽♂️ Halodoc- principle architect role, after HM interview they told I could have done leetcode better 🤦🏽♂️ All I saw commonly is that, people hav weird reasons to reject, nobody takes the process seriously. Especially in indian space it’s very unhealthy that the intention of interviewer is to find if you would fail or break. However it should have been, is this person able to think through thr problem and solve it
Totally agree with you on this sharechat and I can literally connect to everything you have mentioned. When things are negative because you didn't do well, that's more than fine and as a matter of fact tells you where do you stand from the preparation perspective. But when things go south because the interviewer itself is not clear what do they want to ask and what are the expectations, the feedback in those cases are always confusing. For example, I was told today my coding was not upto mark when I was asked to reverse an integer (let that sink in, dude found this in 5 lines I had written). In one of the other places the interviewer took solid 10 minutes to find the question he wanted to ask me while repeating it on the call, where is my question, where is my question! Overall, things are pretty random and it does hurt badly if you are rejected due to someone else's incompetence to ask right questions to extract some sort of signal. Anyhow, keep trying, hope you would find something great, if you are still looking for one :) Cheers!
The only thing I could advice you is, forget or try to not take the results of any interview to your head irrespective of win or lose cos both doesn’t matter in India. Everyone’s company has this person, how in the world he got into our company and there are few who you feel why the hell is he working in this company, he should do some amazing things. So it’s all a luck factor.
Yeah shit happens, only that it was not normal shit, it was diarrhoea! I hope those better candidates can reverse an integer more efficiently, may be handle certain corner cases in the quantum realm, who knows! I have moved on, having some fine red grape juice 😃 🍷
These kind of posts are a reflection of toxic behaviour in Salesforce. Instead of acknowledging mistake, we now attack whistleblowers.
Can confirm whatever op has said is true. Got through two rounds of interview. 1 coding - two lc mediums interviewer didn’t stop talking as I am coding for whatever reason and gave bad feedback 2 domain specific - answered all the questions at the expectation level and interviewer affirmed at every answer that it is good enough gave bad feedback. You can’t use your big organization name to destroy candidates time either invest have retrospective on the interviewers or just don’t let the bad apples interview. Salesforce India experience.
It really sucks man! The worse part is when someone from SF is trying identify the actual issue they are being gaslighted. Obviously with attitude their force would wear off 😃 For the reference look up in the thread
You dodged a bullet. CDP is shit, the product is at least 10years behind. Anyway don’t come to salesforce. It’s low on engineering reputation.
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My question is why you want to join salesforce in first place. People are leaving there left and right. Work is boring and old tech stack I have chatted with couple of folks in sf here and they are also not happy and planning to leave It is retirement company basically known as career killing move. Sf folks, correct me if am wrong anywhere
I wasn't aware of the attrition scene there at SF, thanks for putting it. Since I got a call from the recruiter and the brand value, their compensation bracket seemed fair to my current aspirations so went ahead, or else had I premonition of this mockery of the process, I would have not even thought of wasting my 1 hour!
Is SF really that bad?