Sales Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Samsara with 2.9 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 48% positive. To compare, the company-average is 50.8% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Sales Engineer roles take an average of 31 days to get hired, when considering 27 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 Sales Engineer according to 27 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 29%
One on one interview: 24%
Group panel interview: 13%
Presentation: 13%
Skills test: 11%
Background check: 4%
Other: 3%
IQ intelligence test: 1%
Personality test: 1%
Here are the most commonly searched roles for interview reports -
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 5 weeks. I interviewed at Samsara in Jun 2019
Interview
I’ll preface this by saying that Samsara is incredibly thorough and this process end-to-end was roughly 5 weeks and involved quite a bit.
How mine went:
-1x Phone Interview (recruiter)
-1x Web Video Interview (hiring manager)
-3x More Phone Interviews (various roles)
-Hardware shipped for the take home lab
-1x On-site panel interview (hiring manager + 4 others)
-1x Web Video Lab Review (review code, results)
-1x Phone Interview (AE
The take home lab in which they send you some hardware to play with and leverage their APIs to perform a few tasks I had a blast with! Note that some experience working with APIs and scripting is required.
I never encountered anyone who wasn’t friendly, welcoming and approachable. Not one of these interviews felt like “interviews”.. these were each basically conversations with
The on-site visit to HQ was completely arranged and paid for by the recruiting team. This company is expanding incredibly rapidly... the excitement and energy at HQ is absolutely crazy.
Overall-
This was perhaps the best interview process I’ve experienced. Remember that interviews aren’t just for the employer.. they are for you too so you can get a feeling for the people and the company culture to see if it’s a fit for you. Because of how in depth this process was that easy to determine.
Interview questions [3]
Question 1
Can you describe some examples of how you’ve worked with APIs?
I applied online. I interviewed at Samsara (Atlanta, GA)
Interview
The interview process took a total of 30 min. It consisted of a zoom call with an HR . Asked basic questions about my resume, there was a total of 5 questions total and I get to ask questions after.
I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Samsara (Detroit, MI)
Interview
The interview process is quite taxing. 2-3 calls with recruiting, then you have about 5 panel interviews and conclude the process with an installation. The process is borderline unethical considering all the time they demand from you. I made it to the final stage of the process before they notified me I should reapply in “a few months” because they didn’t actually have an active job opening. They also added that I had flaws in my skillset that were identified by every interviewer which seemed like a cop out for not having an open position. Maybe they didn’t like my experience, but it would have been better to know before I wasted 9 hours of my life during business hours. Seems like a good gig if you can land it, but my takeaways were they spend a lot of time doing empty talent pipelining with no regard to your schedule. The interviewers were generally unable to describe their day-to-day alluding to the role basically being sitting on calls and offering technical support when needed. I would also say that they are moderately unwilling to take your questions and it’s very much an evaluation of you rather than you determining if it’s a fit.
I applied online. I interviewed at Samsara in Nov 2025
Interview
Lengthy, mostly behavioral. 30 minute call with the recruiter, 45 minute call with the hiring manager, virtual onsite with three peers (45 minutes each), followed by a take-home assignment and a 30 minute demo of the assignment. Turnaround for next steps after each round was within a few hours. Mostly they want to know that you can work with APIs, write some basic scripts, install their hardware (very easy and takes minutes), and explain technical concepts to a non-technical audience while emphasizing business value of the product. Everyone throughout the interview process was incredibly friendly and made Samsara sound like a genuinely great place to work; they made sure all of my questions were answered and that I could get a good feel for if I thought the company would be a good fit for me, not just focusing on if I would be a good fit for the company. Obviously, it was a decent amount of time invested, but I never felt nervous or stressed due to how well-structured and responsive everyone involved was.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What is your experience with APIs? What is your experience with hardware (multimeter, soldering)? Talk about a time when you had to explain a technical concept to someone who was non-technical. Give an example of how you demonstrate ROI to a costumer.