I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Samsara in Sept 2018
Interview
The interview process took 2-3 weeks. First I was contacted by a recruiter. He really liked my profile and it was a good 30 minute talk. After that he scheduled a technical phone interview. The interviewer seemed disinterested and I was getting a feeling that they are taking my interview just for name sake. He asked me really easy questions which I could answer all. The next day I got a reject from a automated mail. I was shocked. When you don't want to take people, why interview them in the first place! When asked the reason for rejection, they said that its their policy and cant disclose. Weird experience. Unprofessional
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
The gave me a scenario of their internal sensor data acquisition system and told me to generate an Alert when the state of the system changes
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
