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Samsung interview notes, page 3 of 3

FAANG / Big Tech

Most of these Samsung write-ups come from Software Engineers (11), then Machine Learning Engineers (4) and Product Managers (3). The most reported rounds are the technical phone screen (10), the product sense round (4), the online assessment (3) and the hiring manager screen (1).

22 interview notes · updated Oct 2026

Samsung·QA / Test Engineer·Onsite - Coding / Algorithms

Aug 2026
Samsung SDET interview, three coding problems, couldn't crack any of them. Rejected.
  • Given an array of non-negative integers and an integer k, split the array into k non-empty subarrays such that the largest subarray sum is minimized. Return that minimized largest sum.
  • Given a hand of cards where each card has exactly two letters, determine the winner of a two-letter card game based on the game's rules.
  • Given a sorted list of words in an alien language, derive the order of the alphabet used in that language and return it as a string.

“Binary search on the answer is the move here but my brain just went blank.”

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Samsung·Software Engineer·Onsite - Multi Round

Sep 2026
Interviewed for a staff-level internal dev platform role at a hardware company you'd definitely recognize. The take-home went sideways because I tried to do more than asked, shipped a failing test, and then had to debug it live in front of five people at 7AM. It did not go well.
  • Given a working codebase as a take-home, implement one of two specified changes (with tests passing).
  • Build a REST API for a reservation system from scratch, including tests, within one hour.
  • System design interview round (details not specified).

“I decided to do both options instead of one.”

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