Salesforce·Software Engineer

Salesforce Software Engineer interview experience

SeniorPosted May 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I went through a full SMTS Backend loop at Salesforce with four rounds that felt very architecture-heavy.

It started with an online assessment, then moved into a DSA plus project deep-dive where the focus wasn’t just on coding, but on how I connected my thinking to the work I’d done. After that came a high-level design system design round.

The final round was with the hiring manager and included more low-level design discussion. Across the technical rounds, concurrency control, scaling, and the trade-offs behind design decisions came up more than once. One of the questions that stood out asked about the optimal data structure for a fixed, constant lease duration, and another probed how a

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