**Status**: Computer Science student at IIT Kharagpur (2022)\n\nI started mailing a lot of people late in 2019 working in roles that I was interested in. Early in January 2020, a Salesforce recruiter contacted me and asked me take a coding test called Kula 101 on HackerRank. They were 3 questions and 75 minutes to solve. I don\'t remember all the questions. I ended up solving two question completely and a third one partially.\n\n**1st Round**\n\nThe interview was on Google Meet. I was also given a "CollabEdit" link. I could write code there and the interviewer could edit as well. \n\n* I was first asked about my previous internships\' work and other projects. \n* First question - https://leetcode.com/problems/word-ladder/ . I was already familiar with a similar question. But I started off with BFS solution and in a subtle manner moved on to two way BFS. I wrote the code as well. Initially I missed out a few edge cases, but quickly corrected them.\n* Second question was given an array of oranges and apples, and extra "m" apples and "m" oranges in your bag, replace the fruits in array to maximise the number of similar fruits in consecutive places. I came up with a O(n^2) solution and then after some thought came up with a linear solution.\n\n**2nd Round**\n* Second round started off with discussing with interest. My resume was filled with Deep Learning stuff and he had appenhensions about whether I was open to work in "non-research" stuff. I had to clear that part to him.\n* He then asked me to explain gradient Descent to a 5 year old kid.\n* He then asked to if I could find in non- gradient descent based algorithms in AI. I explained him a few genetic algorithms.\n* Then I was asked a data structure design question for a given set of operations. The Operation were "Set A 10", "Count 10", "Get A", "Delete A". I came up with a 2 unordered_map solution and he was happy with that. \n* On top of the operations above, he asked me what changes I would have to make if it had to support scope i.e. I should be able to define start and end of scopes and all the changes between start and end of a scope should not affect outside of a scope. I came a with a crude stack based solution and perfected it after interaction with the interviewer.\n\n**3rd Round**\nThe 3rd round was more of a HR round. I was asked cliched questions like "Why Salesforce ?", "What would you do in blah blah blah situation ?" to get know my personality I guess. I was honest and he seemed to be happy with it.\n\n*Result* -  I ended receiving acceptance mail finally.

Status: Computer Science student at IIT Kharagpur (2022)\n\nI started mailing a lot of people late in 2019 working in roles that I was interested in. Early in J