Samsara Software Engineer interview experience

The recruiter’s questions were straightforward and based on my background, and the overall interview felt pretty average—clean, direct, and not overly theoretical.

The part that really stood out was the online assessment. It was a timed coding round with a one-hour limit that felt like the real challenge even though the questions weren’t wildly off from what I’d seen elsewhere. After that coding work, there were also language trivia questions that were oddly specific—things like how arrays are implemented in Go and whether the array length is part of the type. Those felt annoying more than