HackerRank Test → Standard coding assessment. HM Screening → Very straightforward, focused on my resume and typical hiring manager questions such as “Why Salesforce?” and “How do you handle conflicts?”. Code & Design 1 → Started with an easy problem but quickly became challenging as the interviewer kept stripping away the modern tech stack and asked me to solve it as if I were working 15 years back. Code & Design 2 → Also began with a simple problem, but soon turned deep as the interviewer drilled down into very fine, low-level details. On-Site Code & Design 3 → Comparatively easier, with a straightforward design discussion and simple DSA problem. HR Discussion → Purely about the offer and logistics. Overall Experience → It was a very engaging process. The interviews weren’t about being strictly right or wrong, but rather about the clarity and depth of thought. I also appreciated the knowledge-sharing aspect of the conversations, which made the experience positive.

They invited for a hiring event on Saturday, there were 100 s of candidates waiting in complete jeopardy. I reached there at 10.30, kept on waiting, 1 round happened which was supposed to be the 2nd round at 1.30 pm, that was positive now the 2nd round which was supposed to be coding, started around 4.30 pm, the guy came up with hackerank with a leetcode hard problem on graph, he himself was not clear on the concept so started asking me bogus questions about why I am choosing mst approach and wasted 45 mins, I could see he was not getting the answer from me that was in his screen so he had no clue. Then after 50 mins he asked me if I can code in next 15 mins, he went out and came back in 10 mins and told he is out of time now and finally rejected.

It was a weekend drive so I was able to complete all the rounds in a single day. First round was DSA: * Asked 3 questions (related to Tree and String) Second round was LLD: * Got a use case of designing a application * Talked about Rest API, Data model, SOLID, Interface, code structuring and a bit about scaling Third round was HLD: * Asked to design an online judge kind of application * Primarily focused on DB choices, components, queues, Sync vs Async processing, scale, observability Fourth was managerial round: * Primary focus was on past experience, few behavioural question around team and conflicts