Between the antiquated code challenge (in a timed Hackerank problem, perform an old Microsoft hacking challenge to process STDIN values for dependency management), to the white-board coding of reversing a linked-list, it was not a great experience.
Many other questions with various folks, who are looking to throw brain teasers at you, but not evaluate you.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Reverse a linked list, on a white board, that produces functional code.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Salesforce in Sep 2010
Interview
At first the hiring manger asked questions from my resume. about the projects and work experience. then he started asking me java and c++ question.
abstract class, templates, exception handling, finally block, what if there is no catch block and there is only finally block.
asked about a testing question. write test cases for a command to find the repeated words in a file. the output should be word, count of the words. if the file is 1GB how will you make sure the result is correct.
question related to sql-> joins, queries
function overloading, over riding,