I applied through an employee referral. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Samsara in Feb 2025
Interview
Phone; Tech; Onsite (Tech, SD, HM)
Communication from recruiter(s) was some of the best I've ever experienced. Super fast response time, clear communication, and willing to go out of their way to help with any questions I had prior to my interviews. Tech's are what you expect, can't say anything about onsite b/c NDA but if you prepped well for the first tech you should be fine for the onsite one. SD and HM are standard what you expect.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What's one thing you're currently learning (could be anything not just technical or academic).
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
