I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Samsara in Oct 2019
Interview
Had a chat with a non technical recruiter then moved to the coderpad interview. Didn't get past the coderpad interview as I'm not sure what specifics they look for when solving. Both the recruiter and interviewer seemed to be decent people.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Given a string, write a function to convert it to HTML (markdown).
A string like :
'This is a paragraph.
-this is
- a block quote
This is another paragraph with a BOLD word.'
Solution would be :
<p>This is a paragraph.</p>
<blockquote>this is </br> a block quote </blockquote>
<p>This is another paragraph with a <strong>BOLD</strong> word. </p>
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Samsara (Atlanta, GA) in Jul 2019
Interview
Phone-screening
1 coding problem having to do with pallets and trailers
About 45 minutes
Onsite
2 leetcode-esque coding questions branded for the company
1 design interview question asking to solve a recently-faced problem
About 4 hours
In each interview, completion of all questions is very valued (it appears). At the end, performance improvements and alternatives are discussed.
Also, you may want to opt for their in-house laptops. Internet was a bit flaky for me.
Interview questions [3]
Question 1
Model pallet and trailer classes; adding pallets to trailers; keeping track of weight over time and getting that weight at a particular time
Given a list of time-to-temp tuples, return the ranges of time where the temp is greater than some threshold; do this then given a list of time-to-booleans representing whether the time-to-temp tuple is valid, return only those ranges which are valid
