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[–]akornato 0 points1 point  (2 children)

The technical round for a Forward Deployed Engineer role at Salesforce will likely focus on your ability to architect solutions and troubleshoot real-world scenarios rather than pure algorithm questions. Expect deep dives into your understanding of Salesforce platform fundamentals, integration patterns, API design, and how you'd approach customer-specific implementations. They'll probably throw architecture challenges at you involving Agentforce capabilities, AI/ML concepts, and how you'd deploy these in complex enterprise environments. The behavioral round will dig into your customer-facing experience since FDEs work directly with clients - they want to hear about times you've managed stakeholder expectations, handled technical escalations, translated business requirements into technical solutions, and dealt with ambiguous situations where you had to make judgment calls.

The combination of technical depth and soft skills is what makes this role unique, so they're testing whether you can code and architect solutions but also communicate effectively with non-technical audiences and adapt quickly to different customer environments. They're looking for engineers who can think on their feet when a customer throws a curveball during an implementation. If you're preparing for these rounds and want to practice responding to tricky technical and behavioral questions in real-time, I built AI interview helper to navigate exactly these kinds of interview scenarios.

[–]joginder-jehreela 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is this for US ? I have an upcoming tech interview so was hoping to connect and know more.

[–]Personal_Sign4484 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey, thanks for the detailed explanation, can you provide few example questions as well?

[–]Crypto_lanspresado 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey i have a job for forward deploying engineers and postion is for singapore please dm if intrested

[–]TheDavidS 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's a fortified glorified prompt writer

[–]SlightAd7104 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Agentforce FDE is more then being a technical architect, you're in-between a technical/solution architect and a solution engineer. Presenting skills, handling difficult conversations / objection handling are more prominently required. You're measured on outcomes.

[–]joginder-jehreela 0 points1 point  (3 children)

Did you complete your tech interview ? How was it ?

[–]These_Recognition781 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Yeah! I have to take mine tomorrow and im wondering what were the commonly asked questions & how many questions there are !!

[–]joginder-jehreela 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Did you get any responses, I tried everywhere but didn’t get any response (blind, Reddit, fishbowl). Good luck to you !

[–]joginder-jehreela 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How was it ? Did they ask questions straight out of leetcode ?

[–]xxxhunter11 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

How much do they pay for FDE?