Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Samsara with 2.8 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 39% positive. To compare, the company-average is 50.8% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Engineer roles take an average of 20 days to get hired, when considering 83 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Samsara overall takes an average of 24 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Samsara as a Software Engineer according to 83 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 42%
One on one interview: 20%
Skills test: 13%
Presentation: 10%
Group panel interview: 5%
Background check: 4%
Personality test: 3%
Other: 2%
Drug test: 1%
IQ intelligence test: 1%
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I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Samsara (London, England) in Jul 2025
Interview
I applied online and a recruiter reached out after about 1 week to set up a call. In the call with the recruiter I was asked about my experience and was presented the company and the role. I was then scheduled for a Live Coding Interview. I thought I did ok but maybe there were more phases to it, because I was then told I was not successful. The response to my interview came after a couple of days. The interview was not algorithms, it was to implement a specific task.
After this stage there would have been another live coding interview, a hiring manager interview and I believe also a system design. The recruiter presented the entire process in the beginning.
The process moved fast for me, but I only went through the beginning part.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
live coding: implement a specific task in a programing language of choice.
First a HR call - goes into project details, what you're looking for, etc
Got connected to a Hiring Manager for a project deep dive + TPS round within the hour. TPS question not too difficult - not leetcode.
live coding session, create a md to html translator. It was all live with unique requirements making it more difficult than I expected using regex. The interviewer was not personable and it was a very uncomfortable experience
I made it to the technical screen and didn't proceed further. Recruiter call was the usual experience dive, comp discussion, and why you are looking for a job. The technical screen was a string parsing question.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Technical: String parsing. Be comfortable with regex