Coding fluency
Implement an LRU cache. Explain your data structures, test capacity one, and walk through an eviction.
What a strong answer demonstrates
Correctness, edge cases, and time / space complexity.
Prepare for Samsara with a focused mix of coding, design, and communication. Start with your job description and confirm the interview loop with your recruiter.
6 Practice picks
3 Interview reports
5 Levels mapped
01 / MAKE YOUR NEXT SESSION COUNT
Your preparation, made concrete.
System design
Design a notification service. Clarify delivery guarantees, model the data, then handle retries and duplicate events.
What a strong answer demonstrates
Clear requirements, a working baseline, and explicit trade-offs.
Behavioral storytelling
Describe a technical decision you changed after receiving feedback. Explain your contribution and the outcome.
What a strong answer demonstrates
Specific actions, honest reflection, and measurable impact.
BEFORE YOU PRACTICE
Ask your recruiter.
Get the details that a generic company guide cannot know.
- Which team and level is this opening for, and what does success look like?
- What rounds, durations, and evaluation criteria should I prepare for?
- Which languages, tools, and AI assistance are permitted?
- Will design focus on frontend, backend, infrastructure, or another specialty?
- Are there accommodations or preparation materials I should request?
Samsara practice problems
Company-linked challenges and related lessons from our library. Not a prediction of your interview.
Challenge
Difficulty 4/10
Detect Substring in String
Challenge
Difficulty 7/10
Maximum Sum of Absolute Difference of Values and Indices
Challenge
Difficulty 8/10
Find in Shifted Sorted Matrix
Challenge
Difficulty 5/10
Merge Two Binary Trees
Challenge
Difficulty 7/10
Linked List to Binary Search Tree
Challenge
Difficulty 6/10
The Two Coloring Graph Problem
Real interview experiences
3 reports from candidates who interviewed at Samsara.
What people at Samsara say
Reviews originally posted on Glassdoor.
Samsara's engineering team has a large number of recent college grads. This means is that if you're a recent grad, you can be handed a lot of responsibility here much faster than if you were at another similarly sized company.
Transparency, all employees can see board slides and salesforce numbers. We all cheer for the sales team at the end of each quarter.
extremely strong pipeline and product market fit, Samsara no doubt has a very bright future and is still in hypergrowth in terms of customer base and increasing annual business almost exponentially.
For those who have been in the company for two years or more the price of the stock has skyrocketed and it is too expensive to leave it.
The business is solid, and resilient considering the challenges of 2020. Management seems competent at directing strategy