Senior 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 35% positive. To compare, the company-average is 50.8% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Senior Software Engineer roles take an average of 19 days to get hired, when considering 34 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 Senior Software Engineer according to 34 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 34%
One on one interview: 23%
Skills test: 18%
Group panel interview: 10%
Background check: 5%
Presentation: 3%
Other: 2%
Personality test: 2%
Drug test: 1%
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I applied through other source. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Samsara
Interview
After speaking with the recruiter, then move on two technical phone interviews. Both are asking to code modeling related tasks with their own business use cases. Both were polite but late. It is not complicated and did everything the interviewers asked in good timing. However, got rejected next day for vague reason. I don’t think the process is fair if technical interview doesn’t merits technical qualification, but what you are going to do about it. Their company their rule. It is probably for the best because you might want to reconsider working for this company as well based on how things are merited in my opinion.
One of the worst interview experience that I had, the interviewer came more than 5 mins late. Then he gave me a question to solve and then straight away got busy on his phone. Some of the decisions that we
Only had an initial call with a frankly clueless recruiter. Could tell me very little about the role, what I would be working on, or even the tech stack. Interrupted me constantly and kept asking me if I had any more questions when she couldn't even answer the few I did have. Probably the worst HR phone screen I've ever had, and I've had a few.
Recruiter round was smooth and professional. However, the technical interview didn’t match what was described. The prep materials clearly said no Leetcode, and focused on Samsara's system related.
I prepared accordingly, but the interview ended up being a standard Leetcode medium. Disappointed by the mismatch — if algorithm questions are preferred, let candidates know.
Advice to others:
Prepare for Leetcode