I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Samsara in Nov 2020
Interview
A manager reached out to me on LinkedIn.
I had a 30 min chat with the manager followed by a technical phone screen on an online coding site.
The interview process and scheduling was pretty fast and recruiters were very responsive.
I thought the manager seemed rather inexperienced and was trying to build a new team out.
The phone screen seemed easy, and I thought I wrote well abstracted code and communicated well.
I received the decision that they didn't want to move forward after the phone screen one week after the interview.
I'm assuming they found a more senior candidate they wanted to hire because I thought the interview went well.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Design a class that represents a `Valuable` which has a name and volume. Design a `Safe Deposit Box` that holds a list of valuables and implement `add` and `remove ` methods. Each `Box` has a size (small, med, large) so take the volume into consideration when adding or removing.
Question was 3 parts. There may have been follow up parts that I didn't get to.
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
