Lead Engineer Interview Experience - Hyderābād, India
March 1, 2012
Positive ExperienceGot Offer
Process
Interview process:
- Written test: 30 minutes
- Face-to-face interview: 30 minutes
- Telephonic interview: 1 hour
Main topics covered:
- System software
- Linux kernel
- Symmetric multiprocessing
- Memory management
- Process scheduling
- malloc
- mmap
- Anonymous memory
Questions
C questions
Memory management:
- Process address space
- Linux runqueue
- Run levels
- malloc
- mmap
- Debugging tools
- CPU affinity
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Interview Statistics
The following metrics were computed from 1 interview experience for the Samsung Lead Engineer role in Hyderābād, Telangana.
Success Rate
100%
Pass Rate
Samsung's interview process for their Lead Engineer roles in Hyderābād, Telangana is incredibly easy as the vast majority of engineers get an offer after going through it.
Experience Rating
Positive100%
Neutral0%
Negative0%
Candidates reported having very good feelings for Samsung's Lead Engineer interview process in Hyderābād, Telangana.
Samsung Work Experiences
3.0
Good Food, Tough Hours
Lead Engineer • Former Employee
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
November 14, 2013
Pros: Good Learning Curve, Free Food, Free Transportation
Cons: Too much work, no leaves, 16 hours of work per day, worst management.
3.0
Good work done in an unorthodox way, not a place for wannabe hackers
Lead Engineer • Current Employee
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
April 9, 2012
Pros: Good work (Usual Disclaimer: Depends on the project)
Greater impact (Think of your code being used by millions of people in the world)
Good salary and good perks when compared with other competitors
Easy and faster growth in technical roles if you are competent
Cons: No superstars to look up to or inspire. (Can be pros as well; you can be one easily after convincing HQ).
Thinking of HQ (Korea) as customers and not as peers. (Mainly because of old-timers).
Not a place for people who aspire to be hackers to stay long, but a good place to start with.
4.0
Average career opportunities
Lead Engineer • Current Employee
Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India
May 16, 2021
Pros: Good work-life balance.
Work quality depends on how an employee grabs opportunities.
Cons: Less compensation.
Not a good year-end evaluation process.
- 3.0Good Food, Tough HoursLead Engineer • Former EmployeeBengaluru, Karnataka, IndiaNovember 14, 2013Pros: Good Learning Curve, Free Food, Free TransportationCons: Too much work, no leaves, 16 hours of work per day, worst management.
- 3.0Good work done in an unorthodox way, not a place for wannabe hackersLead Engineer • Current EmployeeBengaluru, Karnataka, IndiaApril 9, 2012Pros: Good work (Usual Disclaimer: Depends on the project) Greater impact (Think of your code being used by millions of people in the world) Good salary and good perks when compared with other competitors Easy and faster growth in technical roles if you are competentCons: No superstars to look up to or inspire. (Can be pros as well; you can be one easily after convincing HQ). Thinking of HQ (Korea) as customers and not as peers. (Mainly because of old-timers). Not a place for people who aspire to be hackers to stay long, but a good place to start with.
- 4.0Average career opportunitiesLead Engineer • Current EmployeeNoida, Uttar Pradesh, IndiaMay 16, 2021Pros: Good work-life balance. Work quality depends on how an employee grabs opportunities.Cons: Less compensation. Not a good year-end evaluation process.
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