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      Distributed Software Engineer Interview

      Nov 13, 2015
      Anonymous interview candidate
      San Francisco, CA
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Salesforce (San Francisco, CA) in Sep 2015

      Interview

      1st step Phone screening 1 hr The Remote programming Test of 2 hrs, Onsite interviews, 5 interviews, 5 hrs, it was a whole day process. Interview with Sr. Engineer , 3 Algorithms on white board for 1 hr Interview with Hiring Manager, lunch interview , algorithm on white board. Interview with Performance engineer, 2 questions for 2 different design of a scenario, test scenarios, background, current work related questions. Interview with QA engineer, who was extremely hyper, I didn't get an idea what he really want to evaluate in my he was stuck with communication error between 2 computers how to find it. after wasting a lot of time he came towards RPT code review. and didn't review the code as it was expected to be written in 2 hrs. He pointed out very minor things like why caught Exception instead of some specific exception in some specific scenario in the code. He didn't realize that this code was written under the pressure of time. It was a complete working code but he didn't care.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Algorithms, testing many core java, agile specific, distributed caching, spring framework related questions. automatic build process, jenkins
      1 Answer