Samsung Electronics Software Engineer interview experience

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Vancouver, BCPosted Jul 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My first onsite round was a coding interview where I had to use my local IntelliJ and write the code in that environment.

After that, I moved into onsite coding and system design. The coding challenge was about removing duplicates from a linked list “in place,” and it was followed by a system design round.

For the system design, I was asked to design a platform to upload syllabus videos. I started by explaining an approach using Lambdas, but eventually I was pushed to implement something more generally, not tied to that specific framing. It was the kind of questioning where the interviewer wanted the design to become concrete rather than stay at the high-level idea stage.

Overall it matched a tougher,

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