Explain background and Salesforce motivation

Q: Explain background and Salesforce motivation

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Behavioral Prompt: SDE II (GCP-Focused Team)

You are interviewing for an SDE II role on a GCP-focused team at Salesforce during a technical screen. Provide a concise, 2–3 minute response that covers:

Background summary

Your experience directly relevant to an SDE II: languages, distributed systems, cloud (especially GCP), scale, reliability/on-call, design/ownership, mentorship.

Why Salesforce and why this GCP-focused team

Specific reasons tied to Salesforce's mission/values and the team’s problem space (multi-region scale, security, cost/performance on GCP).

Past projects demonstrating impact, leadership, and stack alignment

Describe 2–3 projects using STAR (Situation, Task, Actions, Results). For each, include:
- Measurable impact (latency, cost, reliability, throughput, developer velocity).
- Leadership (ownership, cross-team influence, mentorship, on-call/incident response).
- Stack/culture alignment (GCP services like GKE, Pub/Sub, Dataflow, BigQuery, Cloud Run/Functions, Spanner/Bigtable; IaC/CI-CD; testing; observability; security).

Close with immediate value

How you’ll ramp and contribute in the first 90 days.

Explain background and Salesforce motivation

Behavioral Prompt: SDE II (GCP-Focused Team)

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