Samsara Software Engineer interview experience

The coding part was hands-on, with two technical employees watching as I built something that processed command-line arguments. The interviewer walked me into it by first checking what arguments were defined and which values they held, then I added more conditions as the scenario expanded. I found it mentally slow because the main interviewer was very soft-spoken, and I spent a lot of time trying to clarify each step.

For system design, I was asked to design a system to process credit card charges and validate against location information derived from GPS. The manager interview felt more