I applied online. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Samsara in Sept 2025
Interview
Round 1
Behavioural Questions + Questions on Projects
Round 2
One Easy DSA question related to count sort.
Questions on past work.
Rejected despite answering everthing and interviewer verbally telling me thats what they were expecting. They are wasting time.
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