Engineering Manager applicants have rated the interview process at Samsara with 3.3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 50% positive. To compare, the company-average is 50.8% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Engineering Manager roles take an average of 14 days to get hired, when considering 4 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 Engineering Manager according to 4 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 38%
One on one interview: 25%
Group panel interview: 13%
Skills test: 13%
Personality test: 13%
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Total process spanned 8 weeks which included three different phone interviews, two sets of on-sites and a 3 week long reference check with three references. At the end of which they went with another candidate. I had to do most of the follow-ups as recruiter wasn't making much effort to keep me up to date. Promises were made to give a decision by a week and having failed to hear back, I had to follow up to get a decision. One of my references let me know that they stood her up during a scheduled call and then kept re-scheduling time with her multiple times.
Overall, I came away with a poor candidate experience (and impression of the company) especially due to opaqueness of the timelines. Very little respect was shown to candidate by not proactively providing updates, leaving it up to the candidate to do most of the guesswork and follow ups. While they had other candidates in the mix, which is fine, they weren't transparent about it and kept stringing me along. Also they weren't very respectful of one of my references' time.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Coding, System Design, Engineering Management Motivations. I came away wondering if they actually know how to assess management competencies they care about. They need to spend a lot of time refining their questions and ironing out their process. As it stands now they are wasting everyone's time by going back and forth with multiple ad-hoc rounds and relying on references for key signals.
I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Samsara (London, England) in Jan 2024
Interview
Horrible Interview Process.
The recruiter didn't show up for the first call. Had to reschedule. On the 2nd rescheduled call, the recruiter showed up more than 5 minutes late and seemed very unbothered about being late.
She looked bored throughout the interview and asked very few questions.
Overall she seemed biased and there was already a predicted outcome.
They later sent an email saying they had already selected someone else for the role
I applied in-person. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Samsara in Jan 2024
Interview
The process consisted of: an initial phone screen with a recruiter, followed by a phone screen with a hiring manager, systems design, product and management interviews, and concluded with an interview with the hiring manager.
The process was conducted online.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
If you were in charge as the Chief Product Officer in one of your past gigs, what tweaks would you make to the product strategy?
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Samsara (London, England)
Interview
Typical recruiter phone screening, one hour phone interview and on-site interview with the different stakeholders during the whole day including lunch a technical "hackerrank" test and an architecture/design interview.
The phone interviewer interviews you again in person, same questions, which feels a bit repetitive.
Good luck with the architecture interview, you have to imagine what do they want exactly or what type of design they are thinking about otherwise you're done.