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The portfolio probe that opens Salesforce's Agentforce FDE loop and most 2026 screens. Interviewers are smelling for weekend wrappers, the scoring is on evals, users, and production scars, not project count.
Updated Aug 2026 · Grounded in real Forward Deployed Engineer interview loops and written to a senior-engineer editorial bar.
The portfolio probe that opens Salesforce's Agentforce FDE loop and most 2026 screens. Interviewers are smelling for weekend wrappers, the scoring is on evals, users, and production scars, not project count.
Lead with where the obvious approach breaks, because that is the judgment they are screening for — most candidates jump straight to the happy path and lose the room.
Then walk the failure back through the pipeline in order, naming the one metric the customer's exec sponsor actually cares about before you propose the fix.
