Salesforce Backend Engineer interview experience

The test had two coding questions to complete in 75 minutes, which felt like a focused timed screen rather than a multi-step gauntlet.

The concrete prompt I remember clearly was about minimum operations to reduce a positive integer to zero. It was the kind of problem that forces you to think about transitions and optimal steps rather than just implementing something straightforward.

I didn’t share any subsequent interview details beyond the OA, but the experience itself was clear: the assessment was where they were evaluating whether I could handle backend-style coding and reasoning within