1p3a Question · Nov 2025

Salesforce Online Assessment Experience for SMTS Backend (2024)

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Salesforce SMTS Backend Online Assessment Overview *

Experience Level: 6.5 Years *

Source: Careers Portal *

Platform: HackerRank *

Format: 2 Questions, 75 Minutes **Problem 1: Mini

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Salesforce SMTS Backend Online Assessment Overview *

Experience Level: 6.5 Years *

Source: Careers Portal *

Platform: HackerRank *

Format: 2 Questions, 75 Minutes

Problem 1: Minimum Operations to Reduce to Zero Given a positive integer n, find the minimum number of operations required to convert n to 0. *

Rule: In each operation, choose any integer i (where i ≥ 0) and either add or subtract 2^i from the current value. *

Output:

Return the minimum count of operations.

Problem 2: Maximum Requests in Window Given an integer array timestamp and an integer windowSize, determine the peak request volume. *

Goal: Identify the maximum number of requests occurring within any continuous time window of windowSize minutes. *

Output:

Return the integer denoting the maximum requests observed.

About This Question

This is a reported interview question from a salesforce interview for a swe role during the oa round reported in 2025.

It covers the following topics: Arrays .

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