Samsung interview notes, page 2 of 3

“I started with headcount and immediately second-guessed myself on the on-site ratio.” The rest of the author's notes on Product Manager interview at Samsung, Onsite - Product Sense / Strategy round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“I knew this problem but still fumbled explaining the recurrence out loud.” The rest of the author's notes on Machine Learning Engineer interview at Samsung, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“I went with DFS and marked visited cells by flipping them to '0' in place.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Samsung, Online Assessment (OA) round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“I went straight to foot traffic and peak hours because that felt obvious, but I stalled a bit when trying to connect data sources to actual decisions.” The rest of the author's notes on Data Analyst interview at Samsung, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“I started with headcount and worked outward, which felt right, but I almost forgot about the hybrid work piece entirely.” The rest of the author's notes on Data Scientist interview at Samsung, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“I started rattling off the obvious stuff: name, email, shipping address, payment method.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Samsung, Onsite - Product Sense / Strategy round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“Two pointers from both ends, skip non-alphanumeric chars, compare lowercased.” The rest of the author's notes on Machine Learning Engineer interview at Samsung, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“I fumbled the opening a bit because I jumped straight into features without clarifying who the user even is.” The rest of the author's notes on Product Manager interview at Samsung, Onsite - Product Sense / Strategy round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“Pretty standard opener but I always underestimate how much they actually dig in.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Samsung, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“Said system design, because I work with microservices but never really got visibility into the architectural decisions behind them.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Samsung, Hiring Manager Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.