I applied through college or university. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Samsara (San Francisco, CA) in Sep 2019
Interview
Phone screen + Onsite interview. You get a product demo, some coffee and snacks, lunch and do 3 technical interviews. 1 Hiring Manager interview.
It's a pretty good process and you get to meet many engineers and talk to them. Felt like they respected my time and abilities.
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