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.
The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Samsara in May 2024
Interview
Appalling interview.
Summarize: Interviewer was having breakfast and not listening to the exercise at all, not asking questions or providing hints if the direction of the interview was correct.
The interview starts by stating they are more interested in having an end result not caring about the though process.
I checked the day before similar question about converting a text into a HTML parser but I thought this will not be the case, first of all I am not applying for a frontend job and the question to develop included at least 5 rules to develop which includes an unreasonable amount of parsing. Interviewer even stated almost at the end of the interview he didn't know what I was writing as he was not paying attention.
Such a waste amount of time. Do not lose your time applying there.
On the positive side the recruiter was friendly but that ends there.
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