Samsara·QA Automation Engineer

Samsara QA Automation Engineer interview experience

No offer

Easy

Negative

San Francisco, CAPosted Mar 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I started with a Zoom call with the hiring manager that felt pleasant, and then another call with the recruiter that was mostly about whether I wanted to continue.

I was told the next steps would be coding plus a take-home project, and once I shared my availability, they scheduled four hours of interviews on a single day. It wasn’t communicated ahead of time that this would basically function like a virtual onsite, and I ended up trying to make it work rather than pushing too hard.

The day started with two fairly straightforward coding exercises, then there was a short conversation, and after that I received the take-home prompt for what turned into the main event. The assignment was essentially a HIL test management and dispatching stack that I was

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