Motorola Solutions Salesforce Developer L1 interview questions shared by a candidate with 3.5+ years of experience (updated Oct 2026). The questions cover the data security model, triggers, hierarchy SOQL queries and LWC fundamentals.
What's Covered
Topics covered in these interviews.
01Security, Apex & Triggers7
02Lightning Web Components7
All Interview Questions
Every question listed one by one, in a fresh order. Answers are not included, so practise explaining each one in your own words.
Security, Apex & Triggers
1Have you used with sharing and without sharing in Apex?
2In what cases do we use before and after triggers?
3Explain the data security model.
4In the same hierarchy, write a SOQL query on F that fetches details from A (name and Ids).
5Introduce yourself and describe your journey in Salesforce and the projects you worked on.
6Write a trigger so that when a new Contact comes in with an email, or its email changes, the AccountEmail__c field on the related Account is updated with that email only if AccountEmail__c has no value yet.
7Objects A, B, C, D, E and F are in a hierarchy with A at the top and F at the bottom. Write a SOQL query on A that fetches details from F (name and Ids).
Lightning Web Components
8What are public properties and public methods in LWC and what is their usage?
9Print the top n Accounts filtered by last modified date in an LWC as a list. The value of n is passed from JS.
10What is shadow DOM?
11Tell me about the lifecycle hooks of LWC components.
12What differences did you find between LWC and Aura?
13What is a lightning data table?
14How many types of events do we have in LWC? What are the phases of events, and what are application events?
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