Salesforce Software Engineer Phone Screen Questions
24+ questions from real Salesforce Software Engineer Phone Screen rounds, reported by candidates who interviewed there.
What does the Salesforce Phone Screen round test?
The Salesforce phone screen typically lasts 45-60 minutes and evaluates core Software Engineer fundamentals. Candidates should expect 1-2 algorithmic problems, basic system design discussion at senior levels, and questions about relevant experience. The goal is to confirm technical competence before bringing candidates onsite.
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Salesforce Software Engineer Phone Screen Questions
Salesforce MTS 2025
Round 1: DSA https://leetcode.com/problems/course-schedule-ii/description/ https://leetcode.com/problems/rotting-oranges/description/ Round 2: DSA Similar to https://leetcode.com/problems/meeting-rooms-ii/description/ https://leetcode.com/problems/longest-substring-of-all-vowels-in-order/description/ Round 3: HM round Discussion about current project, system design concepts, a couple of behavioural questions Round 4: Round with the Director Discussion about the current project,...
I have recently attended an interview with Salesforce Hyderabad, for SDE-I position. There are 5 rounds in total, all are technical.I. Programming Round:1. Find the diamet...
Resume-based came across this job profile in linkedin that they are looking for the 2yrs + experienced people in Java development for this role. I wanted to share my exper...
Salesforce Interview Experience | MTS | 4.5 yrs
Online Assesment: Q1 A number of bids are receieved for a project. Determine the number of distinct pairs of project costs where their absolute difference is some target value. Two pairs...
Recently salesforce visited our campus and took the following rounds for the final selection.Round 1:Written aptitude round containing basic questions on C and C++ program...
Salesforce had an opening for the role of AMTS in April. 3 questions were asked in the coding round. I do not remember all the questions. One of them was...
Salesforce | July 2024 | MTS/SMTS
YOE: 4 Applied directly on the portal. Had a screening round with HM and then three rounds were scheduled in a day. Round 1 (HLD): Design Image Uploading Service (went well) Round 2...
Past Experience : None Opportunity: On-Campus (Salesforce Visited Our Campus) There were a Total of 3 rounds of Interview Round1 (Online Assesment) 3 Coding Questions to be solved in 90 minutes Que1-> Similar to House...
Round 1 (Coding + Aptitude)Coding: Two questions (Kadane’s algorithm and kth largest element).Aptitude: 30 questions (which you found pretty easy).Round 2 (Versant English...
Salesforce SMTS | Cleared
Had attended salesforce drive on 22nd june in Banglore office. Follwoing is interview exp OA: Hackerrank test. 2 questions: One easy and One medium After that got call to attend hiring even in blr...
Salesforce Interview MTS Expeience | Mixed Feedback | What next?
Hi Guys, I have recently appearerd for the SF Platform Cloud drive today. My first round feedback was positive. But for the second round my code was giving the wrong output...
Salesforce | SMTS | Round 1 | Reject
Q1) Find a number in sorted matrix ii. Q2) Find kth smallest number in the sorted matrix Honestly I strugeled to come up with an optimal solution for almost 30 minutes. Then suddenly...
Salesforce SMTS/LMTS
Took salesforce interview 14th oct onsite; process took around 1.5 months. Total exp: 8 YOE Round 1: [Did very well in this] print all paths from top-left corner to bottom-right corner. ...
This was my first on-campus interview and it went really nice. There were 4 rounds in total.Round 1 - (Coding + Aptitude): The coding round was really easy there were a to...
Salesforce SMTS Interview experience | 6+ YoE | Selected
Applied via employee referral. Got a call for interview in 1 week. Total process till offer took 4-5 weeks. Round 1: Technical(DS Algo) Check if characters of a given string can...
Salesforce | MTS | Awaiting feedback
YoE: 2.6 Date: 27th Sept, 2023 Position interviewed for: Salesforce (MTS) Round 1: DSA 1(hr) Started with introductions. Two DSA questions were asked. First one was an easy array question. Gave 2 solutions and...
Status: 4th year(B.Tech), Tier 3/4 College Position: Salesforce Trainee Location: Jaipur Office Date: December 2023 OA (2hr): - There were 57 Questions, 3 coding questions and rest were mcq - Mcq related to aptitude, html, css,...
Status: SSE at an unknown company Position: SMTS at Salesforce Location: Bengaluru, India Date: April 2022 The interview process and format of each interview, for example: Round 1 (Coding): - Inorder traversal of tree(recursive +...
Salesforce | MTS | Hyderabad | Offer
YoE: 4 Position interviewed for: Salesforce (MTS) Round 1: DSA with bit of HLD Dive into projects and responsibilities for first 20-25mins. Asked questions on decisions taken for DB, and how I\u2019d scale...
Salesforce | SMTS | Onsite | Offer
Phone Screen: Similar to https://leetcode.com/problems/merge-intervals/ **Onsite:** **First round: Started with few behavioral questions and then jumped into design questions. \u201CObject Oriented System Design for Dispatch Service\u201D Basically the interviewer wants to know what...
What to Expect in the Salesforce Phone Screen Round
The Salesforce Software Engineer Phone Screen round has a specific calibration purpose distinct from other rounds in the loop. Across 24+ verified reports on LeakCode for this exact round type, the consistent expectations: clear scoping of the problem before diving into a solution, explicit reasoning about complexity, structured handling of edge cases, and the ability to discuss trade-offs between two reasonable approaches.
Reports tagged with the Phone Screen round at Salesforce show recurring patterns in difficulty and topic distribution. The Phone Screen round is typically 45-60 minutes; the interviewer is calibrated against a specific rubric. The discriminator between candidates who advance and candidates who do not is rarely the final correctness of the answer. It is the path: did you clarify, did you verbalize your approach, did you handle edge cases, and did you communicate throughout.
How To Prepare for This Specific Round
Filter the questions below to the most recent reports (past 6-12 months). Questions tagged for this exact round type from this exact company at this exact role level are the highest-signal data available. Older reports may reference questions that have since rotated out of the company's pool.
Practice 4-6 representative problems from this set under timed conditions. The goal is not memorization (companies rotate questions); the goal is to internalize the patterns the interviewer typically reaches for and the depth of follow-up to expect. Reports on LeakCode also tag the typical follow-up depth at this round type, which is the discriminating signal between hire and no-hire calibration.
Phone Screen Round Timing and Format
The Phone Screen round at Salesforce typically runs 45-60 minutes. Use the first 2-3 minutes to clarify requirements; you should never start coding or designing without verifying the input/output format, constraints, and edge cases out loud. Use the next 5-7 minutes to verbalize your approach before writing any code. The middle 20-30 minutes are implementation. Reserve the final 10 minutes for testing with concrete examples and discussing optimization or trade-offs.
Time budget discipline is one of the most reliable senior-vs-junior discriminators in this round. Strong candidates verbalize where they are in their budget out loud ("I've used about 20 minutes, I have 15 minutes left for testing and one optimization"). This signals engineering maturity to the interviewer and creates positive feedback they can capture in writing.
Common Failure Modes in This Round
Reports tagged "no hire" at Salesforce Software Engineer Phone Screen commonly cite: coding silently without verbalizing approach, jumping to implementation before clarifying requirements, missing edge cases (empty input, single element, very large input), producing working code that the candidate cannot refactor when asked, and failing to test their solution with concrete examples before declaring done.
The single most predictive failure mode in 2025-2026 reports: not asking clarifying questions. Interviewers at all FAANG companies are explicitly trained to weight this dimension. Strong candidates ask 3-5 clarifying questions even on problems that look obvious; weak candidates dive into code immediately. The clarifying-question check is often the first signal recorded in the interviewer's notes.
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