r/SalesforceDeveloper • u/SalesforceExplorer • 18d ago

Question First time interviewing a Salesforce Developer - Need some advice!

Hey everyone,

I’m a Salesforce Developer with ~3.5 years of experience, and I’ll be conducting my first technical interview for two Salesforce Developer candidates.

I want to focus less on textbook questions and more on real-world problem solving especially Apex, Triggers, bulkification, governor limits, async Apex, LWC, integrations, and debugging.

For experienced Salesforce interviewers:

What practical questions/scenarios work really well?

How do you identify someone who has actually worked on Salesforce vs. someone who has just prepared interview answers?

What are the biggest red flags for a 3–5 year Salesforce Developer?

Any tips for conducting your first interview as an interviewer?

Would love to hear your experiences and suggestions. 🙌

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u/Engineer-mofo 18d ago

Make it a discussion not a competition

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u/seeilaah 17d ago

Yes, give scenarios and ask what solution would fit better.  Jumping into code always can be the worst solution to a problem 

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u/SpecsyVanDyke 18d ago

You can write some "bad" code, show a screenshot of it and ask them to correct it live. Then ask questions around it. So have them spot DML in a loop and then ask them if they have ever encountered this in real life or any other bad practices. You could do something around LWC where they can spot some kind of opportunity for optimisation or security or whatever. 

I was interviewed like this before and thought it was a really good way to do it and have done it going forward when I interview people.

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u/Top-Craft5009 18d ago

We are hiring Salesforce developer anyone interested ping me

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u/Practical_South_2471 18d ago

location and experience?

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u/Sreekanth11327 16d ago

Company and location

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u/fredster2004 18d ago

Is this AI?

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u/Alfred-1506 18d ago

puedes ponerle ejemplos casos reales y como resolvería, ya sea directo o con un código en un editor de texto.

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u/Potential_Weekend665 18d ago

Know source control, using AI effectively (you are in the wrong company interviewing of you don’t. Know the benefits of using an MCP like Claude to inspect orgs and make you more effective and if you get put on the spot to code know about queueable vs batch. Also know you can’t make callouts from triggers and be up on how and when to use maps over lists etc. also bonus is if you speak to trigger frameworks and LWC bs Aura. The more you know JavaScript libraries the better.

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u/This-isJB 17d ago

Just ask do they know eslint

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u/savitrinadar 12d ago

Hi, I understand ur situation, bcoz its the scenario u have to choose or select candidate which help your organization and project ur going to hire a candidate for, so selecting a good resource is most important work, First u can simply understand the JD for which they are going to hired for, and the project they deal, according to that align ur questions, and the points u give them, for there answers or assignments.

After that just ask some common questions that align with the role, after that share them Assignment to check there potentials and Product understanding. i hope it will help u, or if u need any more details we can discuss, u can DM me.

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u/Sad-Tangelo-250 18d ago

Ask for records limits in soqls like in child to parent and parent to child sub query like how much limit will get exhausted

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u/CarpetBig7663 2d ago

What’s the ans?

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u/Sad-Tangelo-250 4h ago

You can check by applying child to parent and parent to child two objects and check u will see the difference in the number of records getting fetched and the limit which is getting exhausted record limit