Samsara Software Engineer interview experience

What threw me off immediately was that the engineering manager who joined didn’t match the person I’d been told I would meet, and they seemed genuinely surprised when I mentioned it. After that, the security-focused questions came fast and were very specific, like they were checking for narrow, detailed understanding rather than general knowledge.

The next step involved scheduling time to SSH into an interview VM for a Python coding test. Even though the test environment itself seemed set up with all the needed instructions, the logistics around it felt messy. I had to provide my credentials