r/SalesforceDeveloper

Hi everyone,

I'm currently in a bit of a dilemma and would appreciate some advice from people who've been in a similar situation.

I have around 3 years of Salesforce development experience.

I'm interviewing with a product-based company**(Akamai)**, and from what I've learned, the role is likely Software Engineer 1. From what I've seen, many engineers with around 3 years of experience are hired as Software Engineer 2 (or equivalent) at several product companies, so I'm a little concerned about the level.

However, if I receive the offer, they're expected to offer around 18 LPA fixed, which is higher than my other option.

My other offer is:

• Accenture

• Hybrid

• Senior Analyst

• 15.4 LPA Fixed

  ETS (17.5 lpa) Hybrid

So my dilemma is:

• Would you choose a Software Engineer 1 role in a product-based company with 18 LPA fixed, even though the title seems one level lower for someone with 3 years of experience?
• Or would you choose the Senior Analyst role at Accenture because the designation better matches my experience?
• How much does the title matter in the long run compared to compensation, learning opportunities, and future growth?
• If I join as Software Engineer 1, could it negatively impact future job switches, or do recruiters care more about the work and compensation than the title?

My priority is long-term career growth rather than just the designation, but I don't want to make a decision I'll regret later.

I'd really appreciate hearing from people who've faced a similar choice or have experience hiring in product companies.

Thanks!

Hi, I'm starting to learn salesforce. I worked for 2 years as a custom CRM module developer. My stack is Angular and Node.js.

I have knowledge of how to work on CRM development, I need to learn how to develop it in the context of Salesforce.

I have an account in trailhead, but I don't know where to start. I want to be primarily an apex and LWC developer, but I want to know everything I need, including the basics. There are a lot of courses in trailhead and I don't know where to start. I would like to know what parts I should go through to see everything important for development in Apex and LWC.

I would like to try real projects, is there a specific assignment included in the trailhead that would you recommend to try to work on once I've progressed a bit in my learning?

I would like to focus my learning on getting certifications, I know that the base is administrator. But I would aim straight at platform developer 1, do you think that is a good approach? Where can I prepare for the test? Is there something like mock tests? I read about focus on force tests. Are they good?

Thank you very much for any advice!

Quick poll for Salesforce devs/admins — 2 min, building something for the community

If your org uses Flows heavily, I'd love 2 minutes of your time. I'm working on a tool to reduce Flow version clutter and want real data before I build further.

1. Roughly how many active Flows does your org run?

2. On average, how many saved versions does a single Flow accumulate before someone cleans it up?

3. Do you currently delete old Flow versions manually? If yes — roughly how long does one cleanup session take you?

4. Before deleting a Flow version, do you check what references it (Apex, other Flows, Process Builder), or do you delete and hope nothing breaks?

5. Would you use a tool that automatically flags unused Flow versions and safely cleans them up, with a review step before anything is deleted?

Drop your answers in the comments.

Would genuinely appreciate the input — trying to solve a problem I've hit firsthand, not guess at one.

Yup, in every aspect. Change my mind.

I think people are underestimating the enterprise opportunity for SoundHound. Try figuring out Software from Microsoft, Salesforce, Zoho, and even many government agencies. They have become so complex that finding answers often means digging through documentation or waiting on hold for customer support. Many organizations simply don't have enough staff to handle the volume, so wait times can be 30 minutes, an hour, or even days for a callback. With SoundHound Agentic, the experience changes completely. Instead of waiting for an agent, the call is answered instantly then you ask a question in plain English and get an answer instantly 0 wait time no support tickets. "How do I reset permissions?" "Why didn't this workflow run?" "Show me overdue invoices." Agentic AI can explain it, guide you, or even complete the task if it's authorized. The real value isn't just answering questions it's replacing the need to wait for someone to answer them. Zero hold time. Instant help. 24/7. If SoundHound Agentic becomes the AI layer that sits on top of enterprise software and government systems, the potential revenue opportunity is on an entirely different scale than what investors are modeling today.

People working from Salesforce India, do you have work from home? Or is it something mandatory to go to office and work?

Hi everyone,

I'm currently working in a service based company with nearly 2.7 years of experience, primarily in Salesforce support with very minimal development experience.

Over the past few months, I've realized that I enjoy working with data much more and have decided to transition into Data Engineering. I've been studying and building my skills in:

SQL

PySpark

Hive

AWS

Data Engineering concepts and projects

I've also started interviewing for Data Engineering roles outside my company.

However, my current Salesforce support project has recently ended, and based on my interest in data, my company is offering me an opportunity to move into a Salesforce Data Cloud project.

Now I'm really confused.

On one hand, Salesforce Data Cloud seems like a good opportunity because it deals with data, integrations, data ingestion, identity resolution, segmentation, etc. It may also give me some relevant experience instead of staying in support.

On the other hand, I'm worried that if I move into Salesforce Data Cloud, I'll become even more tied to the Salesforce ecosystem and may find it difficult to transition into pure Data Engineering later. I don't known if it's is good to getting locked into a niche and to later realize a few years down the line that it's much harder to move out.

My thinking is:

If I choose Salesforce Data Cloud: I continue growing within the Salesforce ecosystem, possibly becoming a specialist in a niche product.

If I switch to pure Data Engineering: I may get exposure to a wider set of tools and technologies and have opportunities across many industries and companies.

For people who have worked in either Salesforce Data Cloud or Data Engineering:

Is Salesforce Data Cloud a good stepping stone into Data Engineering?

Does experience in Salesforce Data Cloud translate well into mainstream Data Engineering roles?

Would taking this opportunity make it harder to move into pure Data Engineering later?

If you were in my position, would you take the Data Cloud opportunity or keep trying to switch completely into Data Engineering?

Hey everyone,

I’ve been overthinking this for a while, so I figured I’d ask people who have actually been through it.

I’m currently a Salesforce Developer with about 4 years of experience at a Big 4 company. The work is okay, but lately I’ve been questioning whether I should continue doubling down on Salesforce or pivot into a Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) role.

The thing is, I’m not someone who’s looking for the safest career. My goal is to maximize my career and earning potential over the next 10–15 years. I’m willing to put in the work if the payoff is worth it.

What attracts me to Salesforce is that I’m already in the ecosystem, and I know there are opportunities in consulting, architecture, freelancing, and maybe even starting my own consultancy someday.

But FDE roles also seem really interesting. They seem to involve solving harder engineering problems, working directly with customers, and keeping the door open to startups and AI companies. It feels like a broader career path, but also a much harder switch.
So I’m genuinely confused.

If you were in my shoes, would you:
Stick with Salesforce and become really, really good at it?
Or invest the next year or two in making the switch to FDE?

I’d especially love to hear from people who have worked as:
Salesforce Developers
Forward Deployed Engineers
Solutions Engineers
Or anyone who made a similar career switch.

A few questions I have:
Which path has better long-term growth?
Which has the higher earning ceiling?
Which one gives you more optionality later in your career?
If you had to start over today, which would you choose?

I know there’s no “right” answer, but I’m hoping to hear real experiences instead of generic career advice.

Thanks.

Ive talked to 80+ companies implementing Agentforce across US, UK, India thanks to events like TrailblazerDX/Agentforce World Tours and my Linkedin connections. Most of them release agents in hurry, with bare bones Agentforce testing centre based evals, and are figuring out solutions to test Agents. What is your Agentforce testing strategy? And how are you seeing Agentforce releases breaking in prod?

Hi everyone,

I'm a complete beginner who wants to become a Salesforce Developer. I have no coding background, so I'm looking for a structured learning path from scratch.

I have some experience in salesforce admin as im working as a salesforce support resource.

I'd really appreciate your advice on:

- The best free resources to learn Salesforce Development and how to practice apex programming for free.

- The best YouTube channels, Udemy courses, books, or best trailmix.

- How you would learn if you had to start again from zero.

- A realistic roadmap to become a Salesforce Developer.

I'm willing to put in the time and practice consistently. My goal is to build a strong foundation rather than just pass certifications.

If you've successfully made this journey, I'd love to hear what worked for you and what mistakes I should avoid.

Thanks in advance!

Hello All , I am planning to learn sales force and want to change my career from Non IT to IT sector , really want to know this is going to be a good move .moreover I have gone through mixed reviews about sales force career wise , confused at this stage making me stressed out . My self 38 M worked in Banking industry till 2022 and had a career gap of 4 years and want to restart my career .

Friends are suggesting Sales force , Power BI , Pega , Dave ops , SAP FICO paths and zero coding knowledge I have , please requesting you all to provide all your inputs 🙏🙏🙏🙏

So I am not going to name the person but I see a lot of my connections follow this person on LinkedIn.

The entire business model of this person is selling fake interview questions, the good thing about the person is the questions are better than your stupid questions like what is the difference between @track and @api or @wire.

However they are deliberately misleading or the answer to them would straight up ignore the tough part of the question.

One of the questions is how would you receive a >12 MB payload and parse the records without hitting heap size or other limits. Then the answer itself says to divide the payload into chunks using pagination. Happily assuming that the sender would oblige. Which I thought was the hard part.

Then another one how do you ensure live updates of records when another user changes it.
If anyone knows platform events they would know that you can use the pub sub module and fire platform events say on the account record by embedding a lwc and calling refresh. The hard part is limits even in an org of 50 users and 10 updates per user thats 500 events broadcasted to all 50 users if they have their account page open i.e 25000 events.

What I really think is that the person has good technical knowledge but is simply making up the questions and tagging company names on top of it.

How do I know I was directly part of the hiring team at one of the companies he claims put up the questions to candidates,yet we never asked such questions.
I felt like publicly calling him out but didn’t want to do drama on LinkedIn.

Bit of a long shot question for the admins and consultants here. Not selling anything, just trying to sanity check an idea before I waste more time on it.

Context: a lot of smaller companies I run into aren't ready for Salesforce yet. No budget for a proper implementation, no admin in house, sometimes not even agreement on what their sales process is. They limp along in spreadsheets and then 2-3 years later they finally move to SF and the whole thing is painful because nothing was ever standardized.

So the idea I've been chewing on is a lightweight CRM (built on a flexible doc tool, doesn't really matter which) where the main objects are deliberately modeled to line up with SF standard objects. Accounts, Contacts, Leads, Opportunities with line items, Quotes, Orders, etc. The pitch isn't "replace Salesforce." It's "run your actual sales ops on this cheaply for a year or two, get your team used to the discipline, clean your data, and when you outgrow it the move to SF is mostly a known quantity."

Two things I genuinely can't tell if I'm right about:

First, in your real experience, does having data already structured like SF objects (plus deduped, with external IDs, consistent picklist values) actually cut down implementation/migration cost in a meaningful way? Or is the hard part of an SF rollout somewhere else entirely and this barely moves the needle?

Second, the obvious pushback I keep getting is "why not just spin up a free Developer org or a Sandbox and figure out requirements there?" I have my own answer to that but I'd rather hear yours, because you all live in this.

Happy to be told this is a dumb idea. Honestly the critical replies are more useful to me than the nice ones.

I’m planning a short 30-minute Salesforce enablement session for developers, admins, architects, and IT leaders. I want it to be genuinely useful, not another generic AI or Salesforce talk.

If you were attending, what topic would you actually want to learn or discuss in 30 minutes?

Also, what would make it worth your time: a practical checklist, learning path, free certification exam, office hours, or something else?

Mine was deciding whether to continue down the Salesforce path, pursue architecture, or pivot into cloud.

Curious what career crossroads others have faced and how you made the decision.

Whenever a flow or any salesforce component needs to be opened, we the developers have to go through Salesforce Setup maze. Is there an extension or a cli which takes us from the component file in VS Code to that component in Salesforce. Please add your suggestions in the comments.

I was never allocated a proper project in my entire tenure at the company and so I started exploring all opportunities. I've finally bagged the company which aligns with my requirements and got an offer letter which they said to accept in 24 hours. But my current Manager is not allowing me for early release despite me being on the bench. He is saying he mapped me to a new project so I have to serve 90 days np. But the new company is asking for 30 days. Earlier many employees were released early, but I don't know why he isn't allowing me. How do I negotiate? Are there any ways? I've tried asking for a buy out but he isn't allowing for that either. I really don't want to miss this opportunity as the market is worse.