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 is data leakage in LWC?
- How do you deploy Lightning Web Components (LWC)?
- Why do we need test classes in Apex?
- What is SAQL?
- What is Flatten?
- What is Automation Flatten?
- What is Audit Trail in Salesforce?
- If I want to develop a global search component, how would you implement it?
- Have you used SOSL?
- What types of Flows have you worked with?
- Can we delete records using Flow?
- What is a Record-Triggered Flow?
- Explain what you implemented in a Record-Triggered Flow.
- What work did you do on a Community/Experience Cloud site?
- What is the ContentDocument object? What other objects are related to it?
- What are pagination and lazy loading?
- Explain Sharing Rules.
- If I have multiple levels in the Role Hierarchy, will it impact performance? How would you resolve it?
- What is OWD (Organization-Wide Default)?
- What is an Imperative Method in LWC?
- What is the difference between Platform Events and Change Data Capture (CDC)?
- What are External Objects and External Fields?
- What are connections in Salesforce? (Possibly referring to connections in reports, dashboards, or integrations.)
- How do you pass data from an external system to Salesforce?
- What is a Junction Object, and what are its uses?
- What are Roll-Up Summary Fields?
- Other than Community Cloud (Experience Cloud), what other Salesforce Clouds do you know?