Cognizant Technical Round 1 – Salesforce Developer Interview Questions (Based on a Candidate’s Interview Experience in Feb 2026), Candidate Experience was around 4.5 years.
What's Covered
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01Flows & Automation5
02Lightning Web Components4
03SOQL & Data4
04Apex & Triggers1
05Salesforce Core Concepts7
06General & Experience6
All Interview Questions
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Flows & Automation (5)
QWhat is Automation Flatten?
QWhat types of Flows have you worked with?
QCan we delete records using Flow?
QWhat is a Record-Triggered Flow?
QExplain what you implemented in a Record-Triggered Flow.
Lightning Web Components (4)
QWhat is data leakage in LWC?
QHow do you deploy Lightning Web Components (LWC)?
QIf I want to develop a global search component, how would you implement it?
QWhat is an Imperative Method in LWC?
SOQL & Data (4)
QHave you used SOSL?
QWhat are External Objects and External Fields?
QWhat is a Junction Object, and what are its uses?
QWhat are Roll-Up Summary Fields?
Apex & Triggers (1)
QWhy do we need test classes in Apex?
Salesforce Core Concepts (7)
QWhat work did you do on a Community/Experience Cloud site?
QExplain Sharing Rules.
QIf I have multiple levels in the Role Hierarchy, will it impact performance? How would you resolve it?
QWhat is OWD (Organization-Wide Default)?
QWhat is the difference between Platform Events and Change Data Capture (CDC)?
QWhat are connections in Salesforce? (Possibly referring to connections in reports, dashboards, or integrations.)
QOther than Community Cloud (Experience Cloud), what other Salesforce Clouds do you know?
General & Experience (6)
QWhat is SAQL?
QWhat is Flatten?
QWhat is Audit Trail in Salesforce?
QWhat is the ContentDocument object? What other objects are related to it?
QWhat are pagination and lazy loading?
QHow do you pass data from an external system to Salesforce?
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