Samsara Software Engineer interview experience

I cleared every round with complete code, and I felt like I was doing well on the mechanics, but the feedback I eventually got at the end focused on how I approached the problem rather than the correctness.

The feedback basically said I wasn’t thinking enough from a user’s perspective, and that I wasn’t taking feedback from the interviewer as it came in. What made that hard to swallow was that I’d been explaining why I was writing the code the way I was, and I kept checking whether my approach made sense as the conversation evolved. I also tried to incorporate the interviewer’s guidance as