Salesforce CRM Software Engineer Interview Questions
Go Back1. Are you aware of the processes we use here at Salesforce to test and find bugs in an application? Do you use simialr processes, or are your's different?
2. How would you go about explaining the Salesforce CRM cloud to someone that doesn't have a technical background?
3. What personal software development projects have you worked on outside of work?
4. Can you describe a tough software development problem you encountered in your last job and discuss how you solved it? Do you anticipate running into similar issues here at Salesforce?
5. Which do you prefer - a micro-service approach or a monolithic app?
6. How would you accelerate the response time of a website you created?
7. Here at Salesforce we use black box testing and white box testing when verifying the securtiy of our products. Can you define and discuss the differences between these?
8. Walk me through the steps to build a single page application with multiple sections using the programming framework in which you typically work.
9. How do you go about organizing CSS files, and why do you prefer this approach?
10. Since some components of Salesforce CRM are created in HTML5, can you describe the functions of web workers in HTML5?
11. What are the differences between blocking and non-blocking calls in the context of Node.js?
12. Can you describe how you would implement linear search in JavaScript?
13. How would you implement Dijkstra's Shortest Path using a programming language with which you are familiar?
14. If hired here at Salesforce, what portion of your day would you spend coding, and what are the other activities you would perform when not coding?
15. Please describe a stack and the two operations it performs.
16. What are the differences between an array and a stack?
17. Please describe responsive design and the difference between fixed and fluid layouts.
18. Here at Salesforce, we are heavily invested in the Agile methodology. How experienced are you with the Agile software development process?
19. Can you describe the complete software development life cycle here at Salesforce?
20. How do you go about addressing errors in your code?
21. Describe the process you use to create a program, from requirements definition to delivery.
22. Walk me through your process for designing scalable applications.
23. What do you feel are the critical principles of good software engineering? Do you believe we exhibit those principals here at Salesforce?
24. What do you look for or check when reviewing another team member's code?
25. Here at Salesforce, we take pride in the expertise of our employees. In your opinion, what distinguishes a great software engineer from an average one?