Samsung

Compiler Engineer Interview Experience - Austin, Texas

April 1, 2018

Positive ExperienceNo Offer

Process

Telephonic round.

7-hour onsite interview.

One team member emailed me via LinkedIn, and then I had the telephonic interview. After that, I was called for the onsite interview, where there were 6 rounds, including lunch.

Questions

Compiler Theory
Reading and understanding Assembly Language
Delete a node in a double linked list
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Samsung Interview Questions

Number of Islands

Medium

Given a grid representing land and water, count the number of distinct islands. An island is formed by connected land cells.

ArraysGraphs

Burst Balloons

Hard

You are given balloons arranged in a line, each with a number. Bursting a balloon yields points based on its value and its neighbors; maximize your total points by strategically choosing the burst order.

ArraysDynamic Programming

Longest Increasing Subsequence

Medium

Find the length of the longest strictly increasing subsequence within a given array of numbers. A subsequence doesn't need to be contiguous, but the elements must maintain their original order.

ArraysDynamic ProgrammingBinary Search