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Now a days Salesforce interviews are becoming tougher. So should you be worry for that? The answer is both Yes & No.

Why Yes? So, if you have not worked on any Salesforce projects and you are a cross – trained salesforce resource, then you may have a very bad experience. But nothing to worry about that. With a good preparation, this ghost can be removed from the whole interview situation.

And why No? If you are a salesforce experienced and mostly spent your career in salesforce development then it will be like reminding your past experience. You will go with the flow & crack the interview very easily. But that doesn’t mean you should go unprepared.

Few basic things you need to take care before going to attain any salesforce interview. Those are,

• Be careful while creating your resume,
  • Please be true to yourself and show what you have done in you past experience. Never add things on which you haven’t worked on.
  • I always follows the resume name as ‘Resume – Name – Salesforce – Years of experience’.
  • The resume is like your mirror, but here the viewer who is going to see you is either a HR/recruiter.
  • Always highlight the critical areas/latest areas you have worked on. Avoid making paragraphs, try to make short, bulletin and self-explanatory statements.
  • Always add your passport size photograph at the top and also add the image of certifications you have completed.
  • Keep the resume updated with email id, phone number and current address.
  • Add highlights of your past experience in bullet points. Like areas you have worked on,
    • Total development experience in Salesforce
    • Development experience like Apex, Trigger, lightning, LWC, etc.
    • Also mention if you have worked on any tools like VS code, eclipse, etc.
    • Deployment experience
    • Data migration experience
  • Latest project should be at the top and avoid mentioning client’s name.
• If you are a cross – trained resource,
  • Please go through the areas you have already learned and mentioned in your resume. I mean suppose you have mentioned you know Trigger and Batch. Then learn this two areas properly.
  • Complete all related trails from trailhead. Please don’t focus on completing trail just for sake of points/badges. Go through each line carefully and understand thoroughly. Believe me each line can be a question in an interview.
  • Complete at least PD1 superset from trailhead.
  • If you are studying from any blog (including mine 😛 ), please cross verify the same from dev org / related trailheads. There might be chances the features has been changed/removed in recent releases.
  • Read and memorize Salesforce Government limits.
  • Understand carefully the order of execution in salesforce.
• If you are an experienced salesforce resource,
  • Then please go through the past projects and try to remember what you have done in your past.
  • Always explain technical areas you have worked on, never go for a history lesson. Be short and straight to point.
  • If you get a question and try to find the solution from past projects and explain giving that example. It will be easy for you to explain and easy to grab the answer for the interviewer.
• Some of the points explained above for cross – trained are also applicable to experienced and vice versa. This is totally based on how you have represented yourself to HR during screening process.
• Try to practice code on paper, at least remember the structure of code and how it works. Believe me, this is easily achievable if you complete the trailheads thoroughly and understood each point clearly. “Thoda to mehnat karna padega na 🙂 ”
• Please be clear about salesforce fundamental, only coding skills won’t help you in all interviews. Be aware of Salesforce best practices and be clear on when to code and when not to.
• And majorly don’t get tensed or demotivated if you get rejected. It’s just the process and try to learn from your failure, like what went wrong, what should I improve, etc. And try to talk more and avoid being worry about “what will happen, if I get rejected?”. “Kuch nahi hone wala bhai, just chill and try for next.”
• I will discuss with some example questions in my next posts.

Request: Please share your experience and also let me know if this post really helped you to crack an interview. Please comment and do share.