Salesforce·Software Engineer

Salesforce Software Engineer interview experience

Posted May 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My experience started with an online assessment for a C++ Software Engineer role at Salesforce.

It had two questions with easy and medium difficulty, and I had to complete them within 75 minutes. One of the questions was very similar to the classic string compression problem, and the input I worked through included a string like "aaaabe".

The assessment felt manageable because the first prompt let me settle in, and the second question stayed in the same general problem-solving lane. I didn’t get any clear extra complexity beyond what the coding formats suggested, and it was a fairly clear test of fundamentals.

Overall, I didn’t receive an offer. Still, I came away thinking the

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