Samsung Software Engineer Interview Questions, Process, and Tips for Freshers

Round: Resume Shortlist
Experience: Out of 150 students 50 resume got shortlisted.

Round: Test
Experience: Out of 150 students 50 resume got shortlisted.
Total Questions: 60

Round: Test
Experience: Normal aptitude based questions.
Duration: 1 hour
Total Questions: 60

Round: Test
Experience: Question related to coding were asked within topics like data structures.

College Name: Delhi Technological University (DCE)

Round: Test
Experience: Written round: One programming question of 3 hours duration.All test cases were to passed.
Duration: 3 hours minutes
Total Questions: 1

Round: Technical Interview
Experience:
There were two rounds : tech PI and HR round.
A.Tech. PI: Firstly,interviewer went through my whole resume.He started asking questions from project done during summer internship.Questions were:
1.What is he project about?
2.Difference between 3G and 4G.
3.What is the aim of this research internship?
4.How much was i able to complete in two months?(I told that i am continuing as major project,since in two months time i could not get desired result).

Then, he went onto programming language i was comfortable. I answered C.
1.sizeof("shubham")
strlen("shubham")
I was asked to write output.Output would be 8 and 7. He asked why. Basic concepts should be clear.
2.Storage Classes in C-asked me concept and gave some questions to write output.
3.Constant pointers and pointers to constant. Asked to write output of snippets he gave.
4.malloc,caloc,realloc,free-syntax
5.Questions on pointers.

Basic concepts of let us C were asked mostly,that book is enough . Also see, GEEKSFORGEEKS, C section.

Operating System: Mutex and Semaphore,critical Section, Scheduling algorithms, Producer-Consumer Problem.
(Data Structures was not asked to me but others.)

Puzzles:
1. Maximum run a batsman can make in 50 overs.
2.There are 10 coins. 5 face head side and 5 as tail. You are blind folded.Make two piles of equal number of coins such that number of head in equal in both the piles.
Assumption:You can flip coin any number of times.

Question: Why do you want to join Samsung ,though placed in other company?

Questions: Any plans of future studies. I answered 'NO' only job.

Last question: Any question I would like to ask them. I asked what work would be doing in R&D. He explained me a lot of things.
Tips: 1.Be thorough with your project(done during internship or training) . You should be able to answer almost all the questions.
2.Study operating system very well if you plan to sit in samsung R&D.
3.Data structures and any one programming language.
4.Prepare puzzles as it can be asked by anyone. See programmerinterview.com etc.
5.Refer samsung archives of GEEKSFORGEEKS . Interview questions were mostly covering those.

Round: HR Interview
Experience: 1.Introduce yourself.
2.How would your friends describe you?
3.Tell the recent experiences of which makes you initiative.(i told that i am initiative,then he asked that question. So be ready with the examples,when u say any of your qualities.)
4.What is your weakness?
5.Puzzles.He asked me to fill the numbers from 1 to 8 in these 8 boxes, one number exactly once, such that no two consecutive elements are
adjacent(diagonally, horizontally or vertically) to each other.

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6.Which places in India have you been?


Skills: Solving Logic Puzzles, Basic C/C++, Data Structures, Operating Systems
College Name: NIT Raipur

Round: Test
Experience: :14 shortlisted after apti
- There were 2 tests


Round: Technical Interview
Experience: For technical test 2 choices were given - c/c++ and Java.

- c/c++ had fairly easy questions. It also included one tree traversal, sort complexity,etc.

GSAT (Global Samsung Aptitude Test) - (50 questions, 60 mins, no -ve scoring)

- It included questions from data interpretation, logical reasoning.
- Questions were simple but lenghty and irritating.
* 14 Students were shortlisted after this round.

Round: HR Interview
Experience: Be careful about what you write in your resume. Even the technical guy read my resume line by line.
- When the HR guy asks you what do you know about Samsung, you must sound like you have done a lot of research on the Internet about the company and you are really focused.
- Be confident in technical interview and stick with your answer. They may manipulate you so that you change your correct answer.
- When they ask you to ask question, do try to ask questions. But don’t ask anything irrelevant.
- When they ask you about job location (Noida), you must convince them that you really want to go there.
- Prepare the c/c++/ds basics and you can easily crack the technical interview.

College Name: Veermata Jijabai Technological Institute, Mumbai [ VJTI ]