One question I was asked is if I was looking to be a manager as that is what I had done in my previous position at a different company.
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Here are the steps: 1) Recruiter round to check my background and then she had me talking to the hiring manager 2)Hacker rank problem - 2 problems - 1hr 3) Onsite - 6 interviewers talking to me on these areas: Customer advocacy, Salesforce Culture (Focus more on Diversity and Inclusion), End to End Architecture and my experience , Tools and Infrastructure architecture, One Program to solve in whiteboard, QA Concepts, Overall experience check.
I was to write a program to return the fibonacci number given an index
Since I had covered a great deal during the phone interview, the on-site interview was pro forma. There were some simple programming questions but nothing that anyone with some experience could not answer.
Would I relocate to the Bay Area?
What don't you like with your current employer
Scenario based solutions; Performance tuning; Basic questions; like which index you create in which scenario and why? explain and counter questions like what will happen if we create X type of index instead of Y type.
very technical question considering some use cases assessment of your experience and knowledge
How to find the middle node in linked list.
Why use an ArrayList over an array?
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