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 through other source. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Samsara (San Francisco, CA) in Apr 2024
Interview
Interview process was pretty fast and smooth. For technical portions of the interview (virtual on-site) was similar the industry standards with system design and a couple of coding interviews. What I liked the most they weren’t leet code style questions but rather real world challenge that you can encounter when will be working.
Interview questions [3]
Question 1
* react specific task: build a component with some logic, optimize it.
System design question is similar structure that you’ll be ask in any other company but system to design was related to what Samsara does as a company.
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