Data Scientist applicants have rated the interview process at Salesforce with 3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 75% positive. To compare, the company-average is 79.5% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Data Scientist roles take an average of 24 days to get hired, when considering 16 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Salesforce overall takes an average of 34 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Salesforce as a Data Scientist according to 16 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 32%
One on one interview: 21%
Presentation: 16%
Group panel interview: 11%
Background check: 11%
Skills test: 5%
IQ intelligence test: 3%
Drug test: 3%
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I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Salesforce (San Francisco, CA) in Jan 2017
Interview
I applied online and after few days got a Take Home test which consisted of analyzing a dataset. There there were 4 phone interviews followed by a day of 4 one-on-one onsite interviews. Overall process covered basic concepts like bias/variance, cross-validation, ensembles, VC dimensions, Classification and Regression algorithms, SQL queries, business case studies. The entire process was very smooth and the recruiters were very responsive. Need to know
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1.Given a Dataset, try to answer questions about the data like feature importance etc.
2. Case studies about model complexities.
3. Questions on Logistic regression parameters, SVM, Decision Trees, Random Forests etc.
4. SQL Queries
I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Salesforce (Tel Aviv-Yafo)
Interview
I applied via a friend working in the company, I applied for 3 different roles (all student). I got sent a Home exam that you take through HackerRank, the test included two questions. waiting for a HR interview
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Given a string S representing the record of workers entering and leaving the rest area, where E represents entering and L represents leaving the rest area. For each worker, one chair is required. The task is to find the minimum number of chairs required so that there is no shortage of chairs at any given time.
Three stage interview, Self reclamation, Technical, and Mutual Understanding about interviewer and recruit. The process included Self introduction, Resume discussion, Technical questions and Real scenario based. The process was smooth and decent with almost all questions straight and to the point.
behavioral and technical questions. mainly about past projects and ml questions. no leetcode questions. practice system design interview questions as well. everyone is really nice and respectful. i would recommend applying here and going through the process