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%
IQ intelligence test: 1%
Drug test: 1%
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I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Samsara (San Francisco, CA) in Dec 2018
Interview
1 phone call with recruiter, 1 coderpad, onsite.
Coderpad was an easy OOP question. They had said there would be two technical screens but I just did one and then onsite.
Onsite was typical, but better than average questions - less leetcode, and more relevant design type questions and nice engineers. Began with an in depth demo of their product that is really interesting
They don't give feedback. I asked after getting no-reply email and they responded saying it is their policy to not give feedback.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
easy OOP question, one leetcode medium problem, system design questions, conversation about caching
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