Salesforce interview questions

Discuss a time when you had conflicting perspectives with teammates and how you handled it

Companies: Salesforce, Amazon, Anthropic, Canva +10

Last reported Apr 2026

Generate Parentheses

Given a number n, generate all distinct well-formed parentheses strings formed from n pairs of opening and closing brackets. Return all valid combinations as a…

Companies: Salesforce, Amazon, Bloomberg, Microsoft

Backtracking · Bracket Sequences · Dynamic Programming · String

Last reported Apr 2026

Longest Palindromic Substring

Given a string s, return the longest substring that reads the same forwards and backwards. The core challenge is efficiently finding palindromic spans around centers…

Companies: Salesforce, Adobe, Amazon, Bloomberg +6

Dynamic Programming · Manacher · String · Two Pointers

Last reported Apr 2026

Why do you want to leave your current company?

Companies: Salesforce, Anduril, Microsoft, Palo Alto Networks +1

Last reported Apr 2026

Describe a time when you needed to influence a peer who had a differing opinion about a shared goal.

Companies: Salesforce, Amazon, Monzo, Netflix +1

Last reported Mar 2026

Design LeetCode

Design an online programming judge system for coding competitions where users can submit solutions to algorithmic problems, get real-time feedback on code execution, and…

Companies: Salesforce, Amazon, LinkedIn, Lyft +4

Last reported Mar 2026

Tell me about a time when you were pulled away from a project where you were the main point of contact

Companies: Salesforce

Last reported Feb 2026

Tell me about how you maintain coding standards in your team

Companies: Salesforce

Last reported Feb 2026

Design an analytics dashboard for an AI chat app

Design an analytics dashboard system for an AI chat application similar to ChatGPT that allows Product, Engineering, and Support teams to monitor system health, user…

Companies: Salesforce, Airbnb, Anthropic

Last reported Feb 2026

Number of Times Binary String Is Prefix-Aligned

Given a permutation flips describing the order in which bits in an all-zero length-n binary string are turned to 1, count how many steps i…

Companies: Salesforce

Last reported Feb 2026

Remove Duplicates From an Unsorted Linked List

Companies: Salesforce, Oracle

Last reported Feb 2026

Remove Duplicates from Sorted List

Companies: Salesforce

Last reported Feb 2026

Tell me about a time you had a conflict with a coworker. How did you resolve it?

Companies: Salesforce, Adyen, Airbnb, Amazon +31

Last reported Feb 2026

Tell me about a time you had to pivot mid-project.

Companies: Salesforce, Capital One, Google, LinkedIn +4

Last reported Feb 2026

Tell me how you helped someone in your team to get better at some task

Companies: Salesforce, Coinbase, Google, Meta +1

Last reported Feb 2026

Kth Largest Element in an Array

Return the k-th largest element (by sorted order, not distinct) from an unsorted array. For inputs up to ~1e5 elements, solve it faster than full…

Companies: Salesforce, Bloomberg, LinkedIn, Meta +1

Array · Divide and Conquer · Heap (Priority Queue) · Quickselect

Last reported Nov 2025

Binary Tree Maximum Path Sum

Find the maximum sum of any non-empty connected path in a binary tree (nodes used at most once), where the path can start and end…

Companies: Salesforce, Amazon, Datadog, DoorDash +4

Binary Tree · Depth-First Search · DP on Trees · Dynamic Programming

Last reported Nov 2025

Explain the architecture of a service you own and walk me through the technical details

Companies: Salesforce, Docker, Google

Last reported Nov 2025

Linked List Cycle II

Companies: Salesforce

Last reported Nov 2025

Remove All Adjacent Duplicates in String II

Given a string s and integer k, repeatedly remove any run of k equal adjacent characters until no more removals are possible and return the…

Companies: Salesforce, Amazon, Apple, Meta +2

Stack · String

Last reported Nov 2025

Design a Marketing Campaign System

Design a scalable and fault-tolerant system for managing marketing campaigns that allows marketers to create, schedule, execute, and track various campaigns across multiple…

Companies: Salesforce, Grab

Last reported Oct 2025

Have you written any design docs?

The interviewer wanted to know if I handled any large-scale projects that required detailed planning ahead.

Companies: Salesforce

Last reported Jun 2025