Salesforce·Backend Engineer

Salesforce Backend Engineer interview experience

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Medium

Positive

Tel Aviv-YafoPosted Jan 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My process started off pretty normally, and the recruiter vibe was professional.

I moved into technical rounds that were grounded in classic CS and data-structures thinking, and the interviews felt mostly standard until the programming question hit.

That programming portion was brutally hard for me—easily the hardest I’d ever seen in an interview. I had about an hour to work, but I still couldn’t get to a working solution during the time, and the conversation didn’t turn into a rescue—just a tough prompt and a lot of pressure. Before that, I was also grilled on my CV projects and had to navigate core computer science concepts, including how Git works on the backend, and

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