The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Samsara
Interview
Had a phone screening, a take-home project, a technical project review, and a four round technical and social skills interview. Took place over the course of two months. They mostly asked what professional experiences I had, but was given a longer technical evaluation at the end.
Overall it seemed like I was put through a long string of interviews where I wasn't fully technically assessed until the end. Seemed a little backwards. I believed after getting put through the technical take-home project that I wouldn't be evaluated on technical skills any more and wasn't fully brushed up on algorithm problems. Interviews weren't transparent on when I would be technically evaluated and when I would be socially evaluated.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Create a function that takes an array in and outputs an array that has the multiple of each other index in place of the current index.
ie: in-[2, 4, 3, 1] out-[12, 6, 8, 24]
I applied through other source. I interviewed at Samsara (San Francisco, CA) in May 2022
Interview
Call with Recruiter 30 and then another half an hour meeting scheduled with hiring manager its was more about the team and explanation about the company.
Hiring Manager clearly explained the interview process
1. Recruiter round (zoom call)
2. Hiring Manager round (zoom call)
3. Coderpad live coding sessions mostly from leetcode/hacckerrank. (zoom call Audio-only mode, but you have to share your screen)
4. Take home coding round to integrate the samsara APIs and extract the data.
5. Two behavioral interviews
6. Offer
For me, the third round was scheduled with a couple of Solution Engineers and they explained the process well and were talkative.
I was told that the questions would be on actual problems that they are solving at Samsara. However, I ended up in Leetcode problems, which I couldn't able to solve.
I'd recommend practicing more questions on leetcode/hacckerrank before the interview would make you crack this interview.
You can choose any language which you prefer for the coding roung but the SE's are python devs.
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Samsara (San Francisco, CA) in Aug 2019
Interview
After two half hour phone screens with the Samsara recruiter and the hiring manager, I was invited to an onsite interview where I met with four employees (two PMs, CS manager, and VP of SE) for a half hour each. After the onsite, I was asked to complete a homework assignment (less than four hours) that required setting up Samsara devices and working with the Samsara API. After a half hour review of the assignment on zoom, I was given an offer and the opportunity to request meetings with several other Samsara employees.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Describe a client project that did not go as well as expected. How did you handle it?