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Software Engineer Interview Questions
Practice 9403 coding, system design and machine learning questions from 546 companies, sorted by role, topic and interview round. Every question has step-by-step hints, a code runner that supports 8 languages and an AI mentor; members also get the full solution walkthrough.
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- SalesforceMediumSoftware EngineerGenerate Every Generalized Abbreviation of a Word
Generate every generalized abbreviation of a lowercase word by replacing selected character runs with positive counts. Merge consecutive skipped characters correctly and return the complete result in lexicographic order.
Coding & AlgorithmsOnsite - SalesforceMediumSoftware EngineerGoing Above and Beyond: Helping Others and Exceeding What Was Expected
Two behavioral prompts on going above and beyond: helping a colleague or team beyond what your role required, and delivering more than was expected on your own work. It assesses initiative, judgment about cost and scope, and impact that lasts beyond the single situation.
Behavioral & LeadershipOnsite - SalesforceMediumSoftware EngineerHelp a Colleague Resolve a Difficult Problem
Describe a specific time you helped a colleague solve a difficult problem while preserving their ownership. Show how you understood the need, contributed respectfully, and created a lasting benefit for the colleague or team.
Behavioral & LeadershipOnsite - SalesforceMediumSoftware EngineerHiring Manager Round: Current Work, Motivation for Salesforce and Keeping Up with AI
A hiring-manager conversation covering your current role and the progress on your current project, why you want to leave your company and join Salesforce, and how you keep up with AI developments. It assesses scope and impact, researched motivation and practical judgment about AI tools.
Behavioral & LeadershipOnsite - SalesforceHardSoftware EngineerHow do you perform a thorough code review?
This task evaluates a candidate's code-review proficiency across security, correctness, data modeling, concurrency, reliability, and maintainability when inspecting Python backend and SQL-based database code, and is categorized under Software Engineering Fundamentals.
Software Engineering FundamentalsOnline Assessment - SalesforceMediumSoftware EngineerImplement 64-bit modular exponentiation safely
This question evaluates proficiency in modular arithmetic, safe 64‑bit integer operations, and algorithmic techniques for overflow‑resistant modular multiplication and exponentiation.
Coding & AlgorithmsTechnical Screen - SalesforceMediumSoftware EngineerImplement a traffic-light UI with JS
This question evaluates front-end web development competencies, including DOM manipulation, CSS-driven UI state, JavaScript timing and asynchronous state management for interactive components.
Coding & AlgorithmsTechnical Screen - SalesforceHardSoftware EngineerImplement an LFU cache
This question evaluates understanding of data structures and cache eviction policies, specifically frequency tracking for LFU caches and LRU tie-breaking among equal-frequency items.
Coding & AlgorithmsOnsite - SalesforceMediumSoftware EngineerImplement an LFU cache with O(1) operations
This problem tests your ability to maintain multiple layers of linked data structures to achieve O(1) time complexity for both access and eviction in an LFU (Least Frequently Used) cache.
Coding & AlgorithmsOnsiteData StructuresHash MapDoubly Linked List - SalesforceMediumSoftware EngineerImplement common data-structure and JS tasks
This problem tests your ability to design a time-aware data structure, manipulate linked structures, and demonstrate mastery over JavaScript's asynchronous execution model and functional programming patterns.
Coding & AlgorithmsOnsiteData StructuresLinked ListsJavaScript - SalesforceMediumSoftware EngineerMaximal Square and Longest Increasing Subsequence
This problem tests proficiency with 2D dynamic programming for geometric pattern recognition and 1D dynamic programming for sequence optimization.
Coding & AlgorithmsTechnical ScreenDynamic ProgrammingBinary SearchMatrix - SalesforceMediumSoftware EngineerMaximize events attended given date ranges
This problem tests your ability to solve a classic greedy interval scheduling variation by using sorting and a priority queue to maximize overlapping resource utilization.
Coding & AlgorithmsTechnical ScreenGreedyHeapSorting - SalesforceMediumSoftware EngineerMinimize operations to reduce integer to zero
This problem tests your ability to optimize mathematical transformations on an integer using greedy strategies or dynamic programming by analyzing the parity and binary representation of the input.
Coding & AlgorithmsOnsiteGreedyBit ManipulationRecursion - SalesforceMediumSoftware EngineerMinimize steps to reduce integer
This question evaluates algorithm design skills and proficiency with integer operations and decision-making under parity constraints, testing competencies such as bitwise reasoning, greedy and dynamic-programming intuition, and complexity analysis.
Coding & AlgorithmsTechnical Screen - SalesforceMediumSoftware EngineerMinimum Sum of Weekly Maximum Costs
Partition an array of daily costs into k contiguous weeks to minimize the sum of each week's maximum cost using dynamic programming.
Coding & AlgorithmsOnsiteDynamic ProgrammingArrayMonotonic Stack - SalesforceMediumSoftware EngineerMulti-tenant resource allocator: entity model, lifecycle state machine, optimistic locking
Low-level design question for a senior backend role: model a multi-tenant resource allocation module where customers request and release resources. It tests compact class design, an explicit resource lifecycle state machine, optimistic locking under concurrent requests, and tenant isolation enforced in code.
Software Engineering FundamentalsOther - SalesforceMediumSoftware EngineerPresent and Defend Recent Research on AI Agents
This question assesses the candidate's ability to communicate complex research, isolate their specific technical contributions, and synthesize academic concepts with practical AI-agent architectural challenges.
Machine LearningTechnical ScreenAI AgentsResearch CommunicationML Engineering - SalesforceEasySoftware EngineerRemove duplicates and find constrained longest subsequence
This problem tests your ability to manipulate linked structures to remove duplicates and your algorithmic efficiency in finding the longest string that satisfies two distinct containment constraints.
Coding & AlgorithmsOnline AssessmentLinked ListStringsSubsequence - SalesforceMediumSoftware EngineerRemove duplicates from a singly linked list
This question evaluates understanding of singly linked list data structures and in-place node manipulation to remove repeated values while preserving relative order, testing competencies in pointer management and duplicate-detection.
Coding & AlgorithmsHR Screen - SalesforceMediumSoftware EngineerSolve Two OA Coding Problems
These two problems evaluate in-place array manipulation and run-length encoding implementation for character sequences, and algorithmic reasoning about integer operations and minimal-operation sequences, falling squarely within the Coding & Algorithms domain.
Coding & AlgorithmsOnline Assessment - SalesforceHardSoftware EngineerSolve sliding window, heap, DP, in-place tasks
This problem tests your ability to combine sliding window techniques with hash map frequency tracking to identify all starting indices of valid anagrams in a target string.
Coding & AlgorithmsTechnical ScreenSliding WindowHash MapStrings - SalesforceMediumSoftware EngineerValidate a Generalized Word Abbreviation
Validate whether a lowercase word matches a generalized abbreviation whose positive numbers skip characters. Enforce exact letter matching, full consumption, multi-digit counts, and the prohibition on leading zeroes.
Coding & AlgorithmsOnsite - SalesforceMediumSoftware EngineerWalk Through the Architecture of the Project You Work on Now
A design-round prompt asking you to walk through the architecture of the project you currently work on: its purpose, components, request and data flows, technology choices, scale and failure handling, and your own part in it. It assesses clarity, ownership and depth under probing.
System DesignOnsite - Salient AiHardSoftware EngineerFind Duplicate Files by Content with Efficient I/O
Find content-identical files with size filters, streaming digests, exact collision checks, bounded I/O, and explicit handling of changing or unreadable files.
Software Engineering FundamentalsOnsite - SamsaraMediumSoftware EngineerImplement Markdown-to-HTML parser
This question evaluates parsing and string-processing skills, including tokenization, stateful scanning, inline versus block-level markup handling, edge-case management (e.g., unmatched delimiters, trailing spaces, empty paragraphs) and reasoning about time and space complexity.
Coding & AlgorithmsTechnical Screen - SamsaraMediumSoftware EngineerParse Markdown Links Without Regex
This question evaluates proficiency in string parsing, tokenization, escape-sequence handling, and input validation required to convert simplified Markdown-style link syntax into HTML anchors without using regular expressions.
Coding & AlgorithmsTechnical Screen - SamsungEasySoftware EngineerCount islands in a binary grid
This question evaluates a candidate's ability to analyze grid-based data structures and identify connected components, testing spatial adjacency reasoning and state management within 2D arrays.
Coding & AlgorithmsTechnical Screen - SapMediumSoftware EngineerImplement JavaScript utility and API functions
This problem tests proficiency in JavaScript functional programming patterns, data manipulation, and asynchronous error handling when interacting with REST APIs.
Coding & AlgorithmsTechnical ScreenJavaScriptFunctional ProgrammingAsynchronous - Scale AIEasySoftware EngineerAnswer common project leadership questions
This question evaluates ownership, self-awareness, communication, prioritization, and growth mindset through prompts about proud projects, responses to feedback, time-pressured work, side projects, and personal strengths and weaknesses.
Behavioral & LeadershipOnsite - Scale AIMediumSoftware EngineerCompute clock hand angle with seconds and milliseconds
This question evaluates understanding of angular geometry and numeric precision in time-based systems, testing competency in parsing varying time formats and computing continuous clock-hand positions; it is in the Coding & Algorithms domain and requires both conceptual understanding of angular motion and practical application in precise computation. Interviewers commonly ask this problem to assess an applicant's ability to model continuous motion, handle 12/24-hour representations and edge cases, and manage seconds- and milliseconds-level precision when deriving and implementing numerical formulas.
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