My friend is attending a SFDC diversity event this weekend called Futureforce Tech Equality Summit (https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/3135804837/) where candidates have an onsite on the last day for a SWE internship. There were no interviews before the onsite and she found out that the entire onsite is just 1 30-min behavioral. Specifically, she is interviewing for Slack and one of our other friends also attending the same event is interviewing for Tableau (same process). She showed me the email so I know she's not making it up. I thought SFDC had technical interviews for SWE internship. Has SFDC lowered its SWE bar this year or does this only apply to DI&E? Did they slot her in for a different job function by accident? We are confused bc we thought diversity is supposed to have the same bar as regular candidates. Ideally someone from Salesforce/Slack/Tableau can confirm. Before anyone accuses me of anything, I fully support having 0 technical interviews for DI&E SWE candidates for L6 and below. Can any SWEs at SFDC comment? tc: 120k base, 170k RSUs
It's for an internship not a full-time position. It makes sense to give candidates with different backgrounds a chance - if they don't do well they won't get return offers. It's not like most interns (even when they pass technical screens) are contributing much engineering knowledge to the teams they join anyway, soft skills are way more important for an intern to do well imo.
Umm…folks out here busting their rear ends on leetcode. You say certain groups should be just given the job?
Genuinely, why do you care so much? You work at Amazon, so presumably you're a good engineer and you're not struggling to find work in this market. So why is it so important to you that DEI candidates "prove" themselves? Also, fewer interviews do not necessarily mean a lower bar. It just means fewer data points to evaluate. It's entirely possible that the interview-to-offer rate of the event will be super low, even lower than for candidates who interview the traditional way.
ah yes, the reservation system of India in full play here in the US. it’s only a matter of time before India and US will be the same level of s**thousery
It is an internship. Who cares.
It doesn't bother me at all, I was just surprised. Presumably there is something similar for FT roles.
Wouldn’t you have cared if you were students? Do you only care about things directly affecting you?
It’s an internship program that college students apply for. It doesn’t sound that unusual. https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/3135804837
FB University also had a pretty low bar when I was in school - some of these programs are also targeted at younger students
MetaU is different than SWE though, that's not the case here.
There’s a SWE MetaU
Next thing, no interviews at all! Just walk right in DEI folks. You know what? F it… here take the VP roles because we have a “quota” to fill with DEI.
People should refuse to mentor DEI candidates who essentially stole the job from anyone who had to apply via the normal (which is now the second tier) route
Imagine if NFL or NBA did the same thing. Oh we need DEI. Let’s bring in 5’ 4 Asian and a 5 ‘ 6 Indian players and give them plaything time.
It would be more interesting to watch though
Train wrecks are always fun…
Although it’s an internship like many commenters have mentioned, at the company I work for people brought into our DEI “apprenticeship” program get converted to full time without going through the on-site loop
I think Snap does the same.
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