Samsara

Software Developer Interview Experience - San Francisco, California

December 1, 2018

Negative ExperienceNo Offer

Process

They are going to waste your time. No matter how well you did, you will probably get a rejection email after the phone screen coding test. I have no idea of their hiring criteria or any bar. I think they are interviewing people so that they can show the government they interviewed many people, thereby masking their discriminatory hiring practices.

Questions

Custom class design based on their business.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 3 interview experiences for the Samsara Software Developer role in San Francisco, California.

Success Rate

0%

Pass Rate

Samsara's interview process for their Software Developer roles in San Francisco, California is extremely selective, failing the vast majority of engineers.

Experience Rating

Positive33%

Neutral33%

Negative33%

Candidates reported having mixed feelings for Samsara's Software Developer interview process in San Francisco, California.

Samsara Work Experiences

Good Culture, Food, Okay

Software Developer • Current Employee

Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

September 7, 2025

Pros: Very good working culture and food.

Cons: It's not that bad, kind of better.

Good Culture, Food, Okay

Software Developer • Current Employee

Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

September 7, 2025

Pros: Very good working culture and food.

Cons: It's not that bad, kind of better.

Unfortunate scheduling issue despite initial interest

Software Developer • Former Employee

Pros: Clear communication during the initial application stage. The process started off organized and professional. The team seemed genuinely interested in candidates' backgrounds.

Cons: Interview was scheduled but later canceled due to the position being filled. No opportunity to proceed with the process despite prior commitment. This could have been avoided with better planning.

Unfortunate scheduling issue despite initial interest

Software Developer • Former Employee

Pros: Clear communication during the initial application stage. The process started off organized and professional. The team seemed genuinely interested in candidates' backgrounds.

Cons: Interview was scheduled but later canceled due to the position being filled. No opportunity to proceed with the process despite prior commitment. This could have been avoided with better planning.

Great Pay, Terrible Management

Software Engineer • Former Employee

San Francisco, California, United States

Pros: They paid me a lot of money.

Cons: My boss didn't have the coding chops of a high school kid. He had us tracking old static build files and asked us to resolve merge conflicts with every pull, as if that wasn't totally insane and akin to moving sand with tweezers. I spent multiple hours on Zoom with my colleagues, walking them through Vue, JavaScript in general, and often just writing their code for them. They presented this work as their own, to much praise from the VPs, while making absolutely no mention of me at all. They'd often ask a question on Slack, then delete the message from the archives to remove evidence that they had needed help.

Great Pay, Terrible Management

Software Engineer • Former Employee

San Francisco, California, United States

Pros: They paid me a lot of money.

Cons: My boss didn't have the coding chops of a high school kid. He had us tracking old static build files and asked us to resolve merge conflicts with every pull, as if that wasn't totally insane and akin to moving sand with tweezers. I spent multiple hours on Zoom with my colleagues, walking them through Vue, JavaScript in general, and often just writing their code for them. They presented this work as their own, to much praise from the VPs, while making absolutely no mention of me at all. They'd often ask a question on Slack, then delete the message from the archives to remove evidence that they had needed help.

Good Culture, Food, Okay

Software Developer • Current Employee

Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

September 7, 2025

Pros: Very good working culture and food.

Cons: It's not that bad, kind of better.

4.0
Good Culture, Food, Okay
Software Developer • Current Employee
Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India
September 7, 2025
Pros: Very good working culture and food.
Cons: It's not that bad, kind of better.

Unfortunate scheduling issue despite initial interest

Software Developer • Former Employee

Pros: Clear communication during the initial application stage. The process started off organized and professional. The team seemed genuinely interested in candidates' backgrounds.

Cons: Interview was scheduled but later canceled due to the position being filled. No opportunity to proceed with the process despite prior commitment. This could have been avoided with better planning.

3.0
Unfortunate scheduling issue despite initial interest
Software Developer • Former Employee
April 18, 2025
Pros: Clear communication during the initial application stage. The process started off organized and professional. The team seemed genuinely interested in candidates' backgrounds.
Cons: Interview was scheduled but later canceled due to the position being filled. No opportunity to proceed with the process despite prior commitment. This could have been avoided with better planning.

Great Pay, Terrible Management

Software Engineer • Former Employee

San Francisco, California, United States

Pros: They paid me a lot of money.

Cons: My boss didn't have the coding chops of a high school kid. He had us tracking old static build files and asked us to resolve merge conflicts with every pull, as if that wasn't totally insane and akin to moving sand with tweezers. I spent multiple hours on Zoom with my colleagues, walking them through Vue, JavaScript in general, and often just writing their code for them. They presented this work as their own, to much praise from the VPs, while making absolutely no mention of me at all. They'd often ask a question on Slack, then delete the message from the archives to remove evidence that they had needed help.

1.0
Great Pay, Terrible Management
Software Engineer • Former Employee
San Francisco, California, United States
July 3, 2023
Pros: They paid me a lot of money.
Cons: My boss didn't have the coding chops of a high school kid. He had us tracking old static build files and asked us to resolve merge conflicts with every pull, as if that wasn't totally insane and akin to moving sand with tweezers. I spent multiple hours on Zoom with my colleagues, walking them through Vue, JavaScript in general, and often just writing their code for them. They presented this work as their own, to much praise from the VPs, while making absolutely no mention of me at all. They'd often ask a question on Slack, then delete the message from the archives to remove evidence that they had needed help.

Samsara Interview Questions

Alternating Groups I

Determine the maximum length of alternating groups (even-odd or odd-even) within a given array. Find the longest sequence where adjacent numbers have different parity.

ArraysTwo PointersSliding Windows

Alternating Groups II

Determine the length of the longest subsequence within a binary string that consists of alternating groups of 0s and 1s. You are allowed to remove characters to achieve this alternating pattern.

ArraysSliding WindowsTwo Pointers

Find Beautiful Indices in the Given Array I

Given a string and two substrings, find the indices where the first substring occurs. Then, find the indices where the second substring occurs. Return the indices of the first substring that are close to any index of the second substring, within a specified range.

ArraysStringsTwo Pointers

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