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 submitted my resume on their career website. Overall it was not a difficult interview. They don't do leetcode style interview. Which in my personal opinion I would actually prefer. Instead, for technical rounds they ask simple tasks to implement. While this is technical simple, I had no idea what they were testing for so I wasn't sure if I should focus on pumping out features or work on quality ( you don't have enough time in 45min to do both ).
In anycase, they decided to write me an offer which I took. The interviewers were all very nice and very pleasant to interact with. Regardless of if I did well or not, I did not feel any hostility from them.
One interesting topic to note is that I was asked management questions because I had management experience although this is a software engineer position so I wasn't expecting this nor think this will be used in this position.
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Question 1
Easy day to day style question, no leetcode required, pick any language.
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.
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Question 1
Technical: String parsing. Be comfortable with regex