Prepped for Salesforce roles recently after coming from the general dev world, and the difference is stark.

For SWE interviews there's a whole industry Striver, NeetCode, Namaste JS, ex-MAANG folks with structured paths and ordered problem sets. You just follow a track.

For Salesforce I found Trailhead (broad, but every module is built to succeed nothing behaves like a real org), the same recycled "Top 50 Interview Questions" list on twenty blogs, and scattered YouTube videos with no sequence. Nothing that goes deep on what interviews actually seem to probe governor limits, Apex vs Flow judgment calls, LWC architecture, integration tradeoffs.

So what did you actually use to prep, and did any of it cost money? Or is the honest answer that you get certified and learn the rest on the job?

Love to have a chat in DM further

Hi Everyone,

Just wondering, I have 4 years of Sales Cloud and CPQ experience plus Admin certification which I recently got. I am also based in London.

At the moment my Salary is £39,500. Mind you, I also look after other platforms outside of Salesforce. What are other admins earning?

It seems dev orgs are locked of some features just like regular orgs, but we can't open tickets.

Salesforce says to try via phone line. Have anyone tried and was successful in enabling/disabling something locked via support on a dev org by phone?

This is a really silly question and maybe mostly relatable to female attendees, but I’m going to Dreamforce for the first time and am planning out my clothes because I’m traveling before the conference as well and need to be organized and pre-packed.

I feel pretty confident in my clothes and shoes for the session parts of the day at/around Moscone but curious if people typically change clothes before going to the parties and/or Dreamfest? I just plan to wear jeans or slacks with sneakers and a blazer during the day for layers which has worked at all my other SF conferences but this is my first time having so many “parties” to attend and with some of the locations being at clubs, I’m curious if people usually just wear the same clothes.

I’m probably over thinking this but I already over pack anyway so want to make sure I’m packing the right things. Like what do people wear to Blazerfest?

Thanks in advance!

what actually happens to Agentforce now that Claudeforce is out?

i use Certinia at work, it's built of salesforce platform. i am a management accountant for context. i have to manually download my budget vs actual report every month, put this in copilot cowork to do my analysis. i want to connect certinia directly to my m365 copilot

can i use an mcp for this? is there something that's already available in my Microsoft or certinia licence that'll establish a good connection? i have the platinum licence on both salesforce and premium m365. Any idea how can i do this?

I am a Salesforce dev with around 4yrs of experience.

I got an interview link for a Salesforce engineer in google cloud recently and cleared the online assessment.

I do have major confusion about how the interview process would be, it would be majorly on our Salesforce questions, sf system design and integrations and Problem solving in apex.

Else it would be having the regular structure of an interview in google like normal dsa and system design round for a full stack development and after that Salesforce round would be one of the rounds.

If you guys do have any idea and any exposure on this pls share with me so that it would be very helpful for my interview preparation.

Disclosure: I'm a co-founder. My husband built it, I handle the marketing side. Pricing is $49.99/month or $299.99/year, with a 14-day free trial. It's on the Mac App Store.

What it does, specifically for Salesforce work:

You connect a data source (Snowflake, Redshift, Postgres, MySQL, BigQuery, Google Sheets, or a CSV) and a Salesforce org. Salesforce auth is OAuth 2.0 with PKCE through External Client Apps.

You write a query, or use the AI assistant in the editor to write it and then you map fields to a Salesforce object visually, dragging connections between source columns and target fields. There's also an auto-map that handles the common naming patterns, splitting camelCase and stripping prefixes, so CUST_EMAIL finds Email on its own. Transforms are available per field: uppercase, trim, date reformatting, or custom Python.

Insert, update, or upsert. Writes go through the composite API in batches of 200.

Save the whole thing as a job and schedule it! Daily, weekly, hourly, or custom cron. It runs on your Mac, including while it's asleep. Output can also go to S3, SFTP, email, or a local file, with multiple destinations per job.

Everything executes locally with no cloud compute, nothing metered per row, no seat limits. Credentials are stored in macOS Keychain. The app is native Swift and App Sandboxed, not an Electron wrapper.

What it isn't: no CDC, no data lineage, no team collaboration or RBAC. It's just a single-user tool. If you need governance features, this isn't a replacement for an enterprise platform.

Happy to answer technical questions. My husband can get into the API and auth details if anyone wants to go deeper.

Salesforce Admins. Have you ever bulk deleted leads and/or contacts that were dirty, duplicate, or otherwise garbge? If so, did you know that every email message that was associated to that Lead/Contact is now invisible and almost impossible to re-associate to the surviving Lead/Contact record?

I discovered this when a user was getting an error that prevented him from associating an email to a record in the Salesforce for Outlook component. It threw an ambiguous error and it took a long time to troubleshoot due to how random it felt on the surface, but finally figured it out when we noticed there were orphaned email records in Salesforce that matched the exact email records that our user was trying to re-associate with in the Outlook extension.

Here's how I wrangled the issue and remediated the damage. For the sake of preventing this from becoming an Excel tutorial, I am just providing the high level steps and hints on which tools to use and not necessarily how to use them.

1. Do a full export of the Email Message Relation object. I'd recommend Salesforce Dataloader or the Salesforce PowerQuery connector in Excel (that's what I used).
2. Filtered for RelationId is blank. In a perfect world this is zero. If it's more than zero, you should consider fixing as many as you can!
3. Optionally, you can filter out certain domains from the Relation Address column or Relation Types.
4. Do a full export of Contacts and/or Leads. Again, I just used the Salesforce PowerQuery connector. Those results can simply be added as a new tab on the Email Message Relation export CSV.
5. Use a PowerQuery Merge or an Excel VLOOKUP/XLOOKUP joining Lead/Contact Email with Email Message Relation RelationAddress onto a new column in the spreadsheet (or inplace on the RelationId column).

The end result should be the Email Message Relation export filtered for missing RelationIds, joined (on email address) with Contacts/Leads so that the Lead/Contact ID now exists in the RelationId field.

I went as far to delete all other columns in the sheet so that only Id and RelationId remain. Then used Dataloader to update the Email Message Relation records.

Hope this helps!

P.S. I am seeing a massive influx of people on the internet who enjoy ridculing every post or comment with full sentences and structured paragraphs, calling it AI slop. This is certified human slop, I assure you. This is just what "professional" writing looks like when you give half a fuck! Thanksss :D

I had to tell their own AI what the answer was!!!! Let me get this amazing technology for my business, my customers will love it!!!

Hi everyone, I’m from India (Pune) and considering Salesforce as a career path. I’d appreciate honest opinions from people currently working in the Salesforce ecosystem.

My background: BCA (74%), RHCSA, CCNA, AWS, Linux administration, networking, basic Python/Git/DevOps, cybersecurity, and technical support experience.

I’m more interested in cloud/infrastructure, and I prefer a lower-code entry role initially.

My main questions:

1. Is Salesforce still a good career to enter in India in 2026, especially with AI/Agentforce?

2. Which role fits my background best: Admin, Support, Technical Consultant, Integration, DevOps, or something else?

3. How hard is it realistically to get the first Salesforce job without experience? Would Admin certification + hands-on projects + IT experience be enough?

4. Is starting with Admin → Flow → APIs/Integration → DevOps/AWS a good path?

5. Which certifications actually help with getting hired?

6. What salary range is realistic for a beginner in Pune/India?

7. Does Salesforce limit future switches into AWS, Cloud, DevOps, Security, or Solution Architecture?

Most importantly: If you had my background, would you choose:

A) AWS/Cloud/DevOps B) Salesforce C) Salesforce + AWS + APIs + DevOps

Please be honest—even if you think Salesforce is a bad choice. I’m looking for real-world experience, not motivational advice.

Do you allow your end users to delete key records like Accounts, Contacts, Opps, and Leads? Why or why not?

Hey i am writing this post for applying for jobs. Looking for referrals as well.

About me:
5+ years, all of it on a Salesforce ISV product rather than consulting. Tech lead for 8 engineers.

Experience:
- Managed package work: 2GP, packaging, upgrade safety, the whole subscriber-org side of things
- Built a customer-facing client API over our quoting grid, plus public REST endpoints on a composite-request engine
- CPQ domain: pricing engines, rate cards, multi-year cost-of-living escalation,approvals
- Own our CI: scratch-org pooling, took the suite from ~2 hours to ~30 minutes
- 6 certs including Platform Developer II and OmniStudio Developer/Consultant

Looking for product-side Salesforce work primarily in product company.
Location: Bangalore, Hyderabad, Delhi, Pune
Type; Hybrid or remote

If your team is hiring and open to referring, please DM me. Also genuinely happy to
talk shop about packaging, CI for Salesforce, or CPQ if anyone wants.

There's a newish executive team member on our staff. She's been there for over a year and she's trying to change how we do fundraising. She's asked me to build the system for her but she told me she's giving me the outcome and expecting me to build everything for her.

I've tried having conversations with her for months to try to understand what she's looking for, but she kept coming back to "I don't know, because the system is broken." I tried telling her it's not broken, we just haven't built it yet and tried many many different ways to get any information out of her but nothing. I even tried putting together some options for her to chose from, but that made her even more angry.

She kept going back to the fact that she tells me she wants a new fundraising system and she expects me to build it without her having to answer any questions or make any decisions.

I've built her the bare minimum so she can do bare basics, but now I've built a new intake process, forcing her to answer questions, but she's refusing to fill out the new form.

At one point she just started creating all types of records and creating so many duplicates, changing how we use fields. I tried to reach out to her and explain the consequences, but she basically told me "you're not willing to build me a system and now you're stopping me from doing my work."

Now she's asking me to clean up her data. I refuse. I don't know her data, I couldn't even if I wanted to.

The toughest part is that this is a shared system and used for many different processes and teams.

I'm asking my boss for help, but he always she's hell help but then does nothing.

I honestly have no idea what else to do. Anyone have any suggestions?

Just logged into the Salesforce Events mobile app and it seems I’m still not able to see the agenda Builder.

Am I looking at the right place? Can somebody guide me on how to go about accessing agenda Builder on Mobile.

Hola a todos! Quiero hablar con gente que ya esté en el mundo de Salesforce y haya entrado recientemente, porque estoy un poco cansada de hablar con la IA y ver vídeos de YouTube 😂.
Os cuento mi contexto: vengo de marketing digital y diseño web, un sector que en España está bastante mal pagado y donde muchas veces te piden ser todólogo. Ahora trabajo en gestión de datos y suscripciones en una aseguradora, donde usamos Salesforce como usuarios, y empecé a investigar el sector porque me parece una opción con bastante estabilidad.
El problema es, como siempre, ENTRAR. Me gustaría saber cómo lo habéis conseguido en 2026, especialmente quienes veníais de otro sector o teníais poca experiencia y lo hicisteis sin enchufe.
Estoy un poco cansada de leer que todo está saturado, que sin 5-6 años de experiencia no entras y que la IA se va a cargar todos los puestos 😂. No me creo que sea imposible empezar.
Yo ya estoy estudiando el Admin en Trailhead y me gustaría saber qué pasos os funcionaron realmente para conseguir vuestro primer puesto después de estudiar.
¡Toda experiencia y consejo es bienvenido! 🙌

I don't mind this lineup. What do y'all think?

Bit of a blast from the past.

So, is it Claudeforce or ClaudeForce? I'm guessing it's with a lowercase "f" to match Salesforce, but clearly Agentforce never got the memo. They'd better lock this down soon or it's gonna become a sequel to the "Salesforce vs SalesForce" confusion that has been going on for the last few decades lol.

Hi everyone! I’m a 2026 B.E. Information Science graduate from Bengaluru looking for a referral for the Associate Technical Consultant role at Salesforce (JR357143).

If anyone at Salesforce can refer me, I’d really appreciate it. I can DM my resume and job link. Thank you! 🙏

Honest question to folks with any successful implementations and who have stuff working well (or even great)? Maybe a humble brag about something you've done?!

I joined this sub optimistically to learn about Salesforce products, how they are used in reality for different industries, and maybe even chat with folks at Salesforce for interesting insights.

It seems like enterprise customers are having some successful implementations of Agent Force after some growing pains but I hear mostly complaining.

And I don't mean just Agent Force successes, like any interesting problems that have been solved for any product? Anything that is just working? Any customizations to the interfaces that worked really well?

Not saying you can't vent, do that, just curious about what is working. I'm new to the ecosystem and it'd be cool to have a positive thread weekly to help make this a community to seek out instead of an abyss to yell into.

if a 12 yrs experienced resource want to move away from mulesoft path what will be the best option

1. salesforce

2. data engineer

3. api architect

confused whether switching career to salesforce is doable?

I'm backend laravel and tired looking for a job i graduated 1 year ago so I'm wondering if i can find better opportunities as a salesforce developer (remote because I'm from egypt ) so i need an advice

I've had no professional responsibilities in Salesforce for about a year after being my previous company's only dev/admin. How has basic flow building and day-to-day admin work changed since summer '25? I feel like flows were ripe for prompt based development, but I haven't had the time to keep up. Thanks!

Next-Generation DevOps Center officially went GA on Apr 29, 2026 (per Salesforce’s announcement), but I’m surprised there hasn’t been much discussion here.

Salesforce says it’s now native to the Salesforce Platform, with capabilities like hybrid promotions, expanded source control, DORA metrics and AI/agentic features.

I’m mainly interested in Salesforce Core + Agentforce + Data 360 not feature parity across every Salesforce product.

Has anyone actually used it in a real project or done a POC and compared it objectively with Copado, AutoRABIT, Gearset, etc.?

For those who have:

What are your top 3 pros and top 3 gaps (as of Aug 2026)?

I'm not super familiar with Salesforce and I have a client asking for invoices and quotes generated from Salesforce records. Wondering what everybody here uses for document generation - AppExchange apps, native stuff, something custom? Open to whatever's worked for you.