Salesforce SDE2 Interview Guide
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Top Questions — Ranked by Community Votes
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Design Salesforce Flow (visual process automation). Users define business workflows (if-then rules, send emails, create records) in a UI. How do you store, version, execute, and debug millions of active flows in a multi-tenant environment?
Design Salesforce's governor limits enforcement system. Every Apex code execution is limited (SOQL queries, CPU time, heap). How do you track and enforce these limits in real time across millions of concurrent org executions?
Design a multi-tenant SaaS database architecture like Salesforce's. Thousands of enterprise customers share the same infrastructure but must never see each other's data. Compare silo (one DB per tenant), pool (shared DB, tenant_id column), and bridge models. Discuss query performance, schema customisation, and compliance isolation.
Explain Salesforce's metadata-driven architecture. Why does storing field definitions as data (instead of schema changes) enable the multi-tenant model? What are the trade-offs in query performance?
Salesforce emphasises trust as its #1 value. Describe a situation where you discovered a potential security vulnerability or data leak. What did you do and how did you balance urgency with transparency?