FORESIGHT(2023): Summer Internship at Salesforce| Shreyansh Shikhar |
- Brief Introduction:
Hey everyone, I am Shreyansh Shikhar, a fourth-year undergraduate pursuing a Master’s degree in Mathematics and computing. I will be interning with salesforce as an MTS (member of technical staff).
2. How did you get into Salesforce? What was the selection procedure?
Salesforce had just 1 round. I was asked an easy question on permutation cycles and asked a few ways in which that can be solved. I would suggest not writing CP type code in interviews. After this there were some puzzles which I was able to answer. They gave the offer just at the conclusion of the interview.
The online assessment had 3 questions of easy-medium level difficulty.
3. How to prepare for them?
Do competitive programming and puzzles for software and quant roles. For additional resources I would highly recommend going through https://github.com/ShahjalalShohag/code-librarythis blog and resources related to it. Cv and previous experience will not be touched upon in most cases.
4. What difficulties did you face while preparing for this Company/Profile? How did you overcome this problem?
A large problem which I encountered was which topics to focus more on and which companies to apply for. I would suggest this as the number of tests each day for circuital folks leading the start of the CDC process gets too much. This affects both interview preparation and last minute brush ups.
5. According to you, who should ideally apply for this job?
If you are interested in software and want to join a product based company you can apply for this role.
6. Any specific advice you want to give to the junta sitting for internships this year?
One important thing I realised during the process was that it is really important to keep your composure during the period. Not getting selected in a company and an interview round going disastrously and being asked to interview for another without any gap was very new and try to prepare yourself for such an environment.
Good luck for the cdc internship.
Please remember things might look unfair to you or your motivation may waiver but if you focus on your goal you will surely achieve it.
