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Firmware Engineer Interview Experience

November 25, 2019
Negative ExperienceNo Offer

Process

The company takes a shotgun approach to recruiting, interviewing many more people than a typical company would for a role. They weed people out based on who can best spew code in 45 minutes for an inane problem that in no way represents anything anyone would ever code. The code is then evaluated by a machine learning system.

For the interview, they pair you with an actual person, but that person, in my case, didn't even know the language associated with the role I was interviewing for.

The company does not want unique, creative people. The company wants code monkeys.

Questions

Write code to represent a safe deposit box.

The problem with this question is that the U/X and the interactions with the "real world" are what matter, but the interview could not answer much about those aspects.

The code itself is nonsense absent a clear and complete analysis of U/X.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 4 interview experiences for the Samsara Firmware Engineer role in United States.

Success Rate

25%
Pass Rate

Samsara's interview process for their Firmware Engineer roles in the United States is very selective, failing most engineers who go through it.

Experience Rating

Positive50%
Neutral25%
Negative25%

Candidates reported having very good feelings for Samsara's Firmware Engineer interview process in United States.

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