Samsung Research and Development Interview Questions and Answers

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - An interviewer will give you some hints.

I got the question from the interviewer he asked me to think about it for 2 minutes and then write the code and explain my approach.

Don't overthink. Try to simplify the question

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: I explained every details regarding each of my projects.
Tips: Be Honest And Be enthusiastic when explaining your projects. They look for your spark & excitement when explaining your technical knowledge

Round: HR Interview
Experience: Again Be honest, Go through the company's profile before the interview. Explain why you do not want to go for higherstudies .
Tips: If you get to HR round, then mostly you are selected

College Name: IIT Madras

Skills: Algorithms And Data Structures, Coding Skills
Duration: 2
College Name: IIT Madras

Round: Test
Experience: it was smooth and easy
Duration: 180 minutes
Total Questions: 1

General Tips: Be calm and rock on.
Skills: C Programming
Duration: 2
College Name: IIT Madras
Motivation: Pranav Mistry
Funny Moments: The HR jokingly asked about what I think has happened to the TN CM J.Jayalalithaa

Round: Test
Experience: A question related to the movement of pieces on a chess board was given.Easy question.Naive implementation gave me full marks.
Tips: Always try the naive implementation and then try to optimize the solution.
Duration: 180 minutes
Total Questions: 1

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: I only gave the definitions. Didnot know much about usage.
The Linked List questions were pretty standard and easy to answer.
Tips: Understand various datatypes in C syntax.
Make sure you are well versed with what you did in your projects.

Round: HR Interview
Experience: Aced it.

Tips: Make sure you describe yourself confidently. DONOT STAMMER. Make sure you let them know that you know how great a company Samsung is.

General Tips: Data structures and Algorithms.......again!!
Very important.
Skill Tips: Data structures and algorithms is the most important topic tested.
Skills: Graph Theory, Algorithms And Data Structures, C Programming
Duration: 2
College Name: IIT Madras
Motivation: To be honest....my only option.

Round: Test
Experience: There will be 60 aptitude questions consisting of English and Quant. Duration is 60 minutes. Questions are of basic level but may take time. It all comes down to time management.

There are three coding questions for 60 minutes based on DP, etc. Questions are not too tough. Doing atleast two should be easy for many.
Tips: Solve English questions first in Section-1.
Duration: 120 minutes
Total Questions: 63

Round: Group Discussion
Experience: You will be given a topic and five minutes to think about it. Then students are randomly asked to talk about their ideas for 3-4 minutes. Recruit crew will ask you questions as you go. There will be no debating, etc.
Tips: Try using some Comp Science terms to make them impress.
Duration: 30 minutes

Skills: Group Discussion Skills, Coding Skills And Knowledge On Data Structures, Aptitude
Duration: 2
College Name: IIT Madras
Motivation: It's a reputed company on a global scale.

Round: Resume Shortlist
Experience: Thanks for letting my resume through even when I submitted it half an hour after the deadline :)

Round: Group Discussion
Experience: Smoothly conducted; no complaints about the organization of the event. (Though Samsung could have done better than keep that "structured GD" which wasn't even a GD :D)

General Tips: Don't sweat it if your resume isn't very illustrious. Some basic projects and maybe experience at some startup would be enough for the resume shortlist (that was all I had, pretty much). The aptitude test has many questions but just try to attempt as many as you can in a relaxed manner. The coding test is peace - review basic algorithms (very basic, not even to graphs/linked lists level). And for the GD just stay calm and even if you can't form a well-rounded speech quickly, just mention your salient features. They will get back to you as they do another round through the people in the room. So just stay calm and think during the GD. You don't need to be a Hitler-level speaker to clear this (believe me, I'm far from it :) ). They take many people so don't worry too much about competition either. All the best :)
Skills: Communication, Aptitude, Basic C/C++
Duration: 2
College Name: IIT Madras
Motivation: I was looking for a CS-based profile but in my heart I preferred one that didn't involve IT (I did apply for those too, for backup). So RnD profiles like Samsung and Adobe fit the bill nicely; I didn't get selected for Adobe though, and people do say that their RnD is better. No way to know, right? :D
Funny Moments: Technically I shouldn't say things about the applicants who took the GD with me (some of them did get through in fact), but I simply have to mention the types of problems and resolutions that were talked about in the "structured GD" - using satellite images to identify and combat poverty, seriously?
And the moderator totally dissed the last guy who talked (out of his turn actually, when everyone was about to leave) - she didn't care about his speech and cut him short saying "let's give you seed money, maybe you'll build a business" !

Round: Test
Experience: Time management is what is checked. Easy questions relatively.
Duration: 60 minutes
Total Questions: 60

General Tips: Be confident. Do averagely well and it
Skills: Quant+Math
Duration: 8
College Name: IIT Madras

Round: Test
Experience: Basic verbal,reasoning,quant.
Duration: 60 minutes
Total Questions: 60

Round: Test
Experience: Relatively easy,
Tips: basic strings,pointers
Duration: 60 minutes
Total Questions: 3

Round: Group Discussion
Experience: One on One round .
Duration: 30 minutes

General Tips: Basic coding, quant
Skills: Verbal Ability, Quantitative Aptitude, Coding Skills
Duration: 3
College Name: IIT Madras