Salesforce Software Engineer interview experience

The round centered on a string manipulation style problem framed around tracking total hours worked. I was given a 7-character string made of digits and “#” characters—an example looked like something such as “345##21”—and then I was also given a number N representing the total hours the worker needed to work.

During the problem, the tension came from interpreting what the “#” characters meant and how to compute or validate outcomes that satisfied the total hours requirement. The interview leaned hard on doing the right logic under time pressure, and even though I approached it with focus,