Senior 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 35% positive. To compare, the company-average is 50.8% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Senior Software Engineer roles take an average of 19 days to get hired, when considering 34 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 Senior Software Engineer according to 34 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 34%
One on one interview: 23%
Skills test: 18%
Group panel interview: 10%
Background check: 5%
Presentation: 3%
Other: 2%
Personality test: 2%
Drug test: 1%
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I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Samsara in Jan 2019
Interview
The process is pretty standard: after recruiter chat, two phone screens followed by a full day onsite.
I bravely decided to take the phone screen on Friday day end -- which is a bad idea; I was exhausted and bombed it. I mean, I solved all four parts of the problem we were supposed to solve; but my attention to detail was sub-par. They are looking for people who are very focused and writes clean code. Didn't make such impression :(
I was going through the interview reviews here on Glassdoor. A lot of the reviews kind of miss the point of Samsara's interview. They are solving easy problems and they are not looking for correct answers -- this mean you'd be able to solve the problem easily - that is given; but you've to be able to demonstrate that you remain focused, you communicate well and you can write flawless clean code.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Multi part pair programming for auto-engine alert system. Nothing much of an algorithm difficulty.
One of the worst interview experience that I had, the interviewer came more than 5 mins late. Then he gave me a question to solve and then straight away got busy on his phone. Some of the decisions that we
Only had an initial call with a frankly clueless recruiter. Could tell me very little about the role, what I would be working on, or even the tech stack. Interrupted me constantly and kept asking me if I had any more questions when she couldn't even answer the few I did have. Probably the worst HR phone screen I've ever had, and I've had a few.
Recruiter round was smooth and professional. However, the technical interview didn’t match what was described. The prep materials clearly said no Leetcode, and focused on Samsara's system related.
I prepared accordingly, but the interview ended up being a standard Leetcode medium. Disappointed by the mismatch — if algorithm questions are preferred, let candidates know.
Advice to others:
Prepare for Leetcode