ops_omar · 3 replies
got into the Salesforce new grad loop for a software engineer role, starting the technical screens next week. i'm decent at leetcode but not grinding hard problems every day.
curious what the actual difficulty level is. are we talking medium leets or do they go hard on stuff like DP and graph traversal? also do they ask you to write working code or is pseudo-code sometimes okay? a little anxious because this is my top choice and i don't want to blow it on something i could have prepped for.
when i did mine for a frontend role, it was mediums. nothing absurd. they cared more about clean code and explaining your thinking than hitting the optimal solution in 10 minutes. literally said out loud "I'd probably use a map here for O(n) but let me start with the brute force" and they seemed fine with that.
okay that's actually reassuring. i can narrate through a problem, i just get nervous when i can't figure out the optimal right away. good to know brute force plus explanation is acceptable.
for infra/platform adjacent roles they do ask about systems concepts even at new grad level. nothing crazy, but "what happens when you make an HTTP request" level stuff. just make sure you're not completely blank on basic networking.