I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Samsara (San Francisco, CA) in Dec 2018
Interview
They are going to waste your time. No matter how well you did, you probably get a rejection email after phone screen coding test. I have no idea their hiring criteria or any bar. I think they are interviewing people so that they can show the government they interviewed many people so as to mask their discriminatory hiring practices.
First a HR call - goes into project details, what you're looking for, etc
Got connected to a Hiring Manager for a project deep dive + TPS round within the hour. TPS question not too difficult - not leetcode.
live coding session, create a md to html translator. It was all live with unique requirements making it more difficult than I expected using regex. The interviewer was not personable and it was a very uncomfortable experience
I made it to the technical screen and didn't proceed further. Recruiter call was the usual experience dive, comp discussion, and why you are looking for a job. The technical screen was a string parsing question.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Technical: String parsing. Be comfortable with regex
