Samsara Software Engineer interview experience

The process seemed to be moving toward a technical round, but I was ultimately informed that the role had already been taken—first after I was still waiting to be scheduled for the next interview, and later for another round of scheduling where the cancellation happened only a few days before the planned interview.

In both situations, the recruiter was involved and the update was delivered by email close enough to the next step that it left me scrambling mentally. The frustrating part wasn’t just the rejection; it was that I couldn’t see how the process was being coordinated while other