A recruiter reached out to me after I got a referral from someone.

We chatted about the company, my background, and the positions Samsara was looking to fill.

Four days later, I had a phone screen interview with one of their engineers on CoderPad.

The interview was nothing spectacular; I mostly just spent time working on the question given. No questions were asked about my experience.

They did ask a fairly lengthy question about String parsing that could not have been done in the given 30 minutes. They do tell you that they do not expect you to code the whole thing within that time frame, but I was still repeatedly asked to run my code to go through some tests. So, coding in smaller, testable chunks seemed to be the best way to approach this question rather than discussing the approach as a whole.

Overall, it was fine. My interviewer was nice and gave some feedback but was mostly quiet.

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