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Software Engineer Interview Experience

July 9, 2021
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Process

I applied online. The process took 4 weeks.

The interview process consists of an initial call with the recruiter, 2 phone screens, and a single on-site interview with 5 sessions. Due to COVID, they are replacing on-site interviews with video calls, standard stuff. In my case, the 5 video call interviews were split into two sessions.

Because the listing itself was quite general, the recruiter will probe your background and resume. They then provided a recommendation for which team to interview with based on my resume, but allowed me to choose if there's another team that interests me more. I went with the recommendation anyway. After the 2nd phone screen, the interviewer let me know that the option to interview with another team was still available.

The phone screens were about 1 week apart, and took another 1-2 weeks to schedule the on-site. The recruiter that I worked with was very communicative, prompt, and accommodating. The team was also very welcoming and happily answered all the questions I had.

It was about another week after the virtual "on-site" interviews that they reached out to me with an offer. All in all, a very positive experience.

Questions

Given a 2D matrix stored in a row vector, its row dimension, and its column dimension, write code that would access its data in a specific access pattern.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 22 interview experiences for the SambaNova Software Engineer role.

Success Rate

23%
Pass Rate

SambaNova's interview process for their Software Engineer roles is very selective, failing most engineers who go through it.

Experience Rating

Positive73%
Neutral14%
Negative14%

Candidates reported having very good feelings for SambaNova's Software Engineer interview process.

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