Salesforce Software Engineer interview experience

First came a HackerRank coding test for a standard assessment, and after that I had a hiring manager screen that felt straightforward—focused on my resume, plus typical questions like why Salesforce and how I handled conflicts.

Then the Code & Design rounds really sharpened the difficulty. Code & Design 1 started with something easy, but the interviewer kept taking away the “modern stack” assumption and pushed me to reason as if I were solving it from a much lower-level perspective. Code & Design 2 had the same pattern: an initially simple prompt that quickly turned into detailed questions