Samsung Semiconductor Inc (US) Software Engineer interview experience

After a brief introduction on both sides, I went straight into coding, and then the interview continued by drilling into what I’d written. We talked through the choices in my code, then shifted into system design and how I thought about coding style, pushing from implementation details toward the bigger picture.

Across the technical side of the loop, the questions leaned heavily on common data-structures patterns and system thinking. I ended up working through ideas around trees and stacks, including a monotonic stack-style problem and an N-ary tree / DFS-style question. The system design