Salesforce Aloha challenge
Salesforce interview, before on site, is a 3 hour Hackerrank test. 😯 I prefer a 1 hour phone/video screen with the team to Hackerrank tests. Is there an option to ask the recruiter to schedule a phone/video screen instead? If not, What to expect from this Hackerrank?
Salesforce recruiting is shit rn
I know someone who gave this challenge recently and I actually liked it. It’s closer to what one might end up doing on daily basis. Assuming it’s the same one; here is it how it goes: First you are given components and their dependency relationships. Then you are given series of commands as strings which are operations on the components You need to parse those strings; and execute the commands honoring the dependencies. Might sound complex, but it could be easily solved if you know strings; graph; hashmaps etc. They provide a skeleton project where you need to implement these things. Might increase your chances of getting through if you write clean code and implement unit tests etc.
This is interesting!
I got the same one. Make sure you use a good OOPS design pattern. I got rejected because of this even though code was functional.
Everyone has to take this test; no exception. You are evaluated based on multiple criteria. Depending on what title/level you are interviewing for, evaluation criteria changes. Fully functional code and working tests don’t guarantee anything.
Wrong info if you are desirable recruiter does schedule 45 minute phone screen. You just have to reject recruiter on interviewing at Salesforce with this 3 hour challenge.
I used to be an engineering manager at Salesforce. In our cloud it was always a phone screen followed by a 3 hrs test. You can’t get out of that.
It depend which cloud you go. When I joined Salesforce had 2 different interviews. One they asked me to do an online test and second was regular phone interview before on-site. Got the job at the one they don’t do the online test.
I recently did the aloha 2 test for Salesforce and it wasn't too hard. Took me about 20-30 mins to figure out what i needed to do. The rest of the time was coding and testing it. My final solution failed one of their tests but I still got invited onsite.
Mind sharing more info on the challenge?
Does anyone like hackerrank tests? I imagine if a chill phone call was an option, everyone would do it. I'm sure it wouldn't hurt to ask, but I doubt they'll allow it.
Looks like Amazon only hire if you do a 90 mins non sense test online. I don’t think that is a good option to find great talent