Staff Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Samsung Electronics with 3.1 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 100% positive. To compare, the company-average is 59.3% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Staff Engineer roles take an average of 49 days to get hired, when considering 7 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Samsung Electronics overall takes an average of 28 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Samsung Electronics as a Staff Engineer according to 7 Glassdoor interviews include:
Presentation: 17%
Group panel interview: 17%
Background check: 17%
Drug test: 13%
IQ intelligence test: 13%
One on one interview: 9%
Phone interview: 9%
Skills test: 4%
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I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Samsung Electronics (Seoul) in Aug 2018
Interview
After my PhD, I had an interview with Samsung Research where interview consists of two phase: 1) technical interview: 3-5 min presentatations regarding your career and/or research works (should be prepared by interviewee) followed by relevant questions. For research departments, it is better to emphasize impacts of your research (citation, high profile journals/conferences).
2) beahavioral interview: the questions that I had to answer was whether if I think I am better than one of my previous co-workers colleges and if so, the corresponding reasons.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
For the technical interview, questions regarding technical details on my research works that I presented to the interviewers.
For the behavioral interview, quetions on whether if I think I am better than one of my previous co-workers colleges and if so, the corresponding reasons.
They were very interested in my research background (as a PhD). Also, they were curious about my experience on optimization, as a software engineer. The job description was also aligned with the interview questions.
I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Samsung Electronics (Hanoi) in Apr 2023
Interview
Contain 3 main part:
- CV scan: quite easy, if you from an uni with good reputation
- English fluency interview: Quick and short interview by English, about life and work
- Programming interview
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What is your current target, do you have plan to have a higher education?