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Updated 11 Feb 2025

Top Samsung Interview Questions and Answers

  • Q1. Minimum Time in Wormhole Network Determine the minimum time required to travel from a starting point to a destination point in a two-dimensional coordinate system, consi ...read more
    asked in Software Developer interview
  • Q2. Remove Consecutive Duplicates Problem Statement For a given string str , remove all the consecutive duplicate characters. Example: Input: Input String: "aaaa" Output: Ex ...read more
    asked in Software Developer Intern interview
  • Q3. Reverse Alternate K Nodes Problem Statement You are given a singly linked list of integers along with a positive integer 'K'. The task is to modify the linked list by re ...read more
    asked in Software Engineer interview
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Samsung Interview Experiences

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I was interviewed in Nov 2016.

Interview Preparation Tips

Round: Test
Experience: It was an online coding test on the platform provided by Samsung only. The difficulty level was advance.
Duration: 3 hours
Total Questions: 1

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: It was a technical interview which covered all the topics related to data structure and algorithms.

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: It was a technical interview which covered all topics related to subjects like is, DBMS, c++,etc

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: It was a technical interview in which interviewer asked about the projects done.

Round: HR Interview
Experience: The basic intro,questions related to Samsung and why do u want to join Samsung.

College Name: NIT Kurukshetra

Top Samsung Software Engineer Interview Questions and Answers

Q1. Reverse Alternate K nodesYou are given a Singly Linked List of integers and a positive integer 'K'. Modify the linked list by reversing every alternate 'K' nodes of the linked list. A singly linked list is a type of linked list that is unid... read more
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Software Engineer Interview Questions asked at other Companies

Q1. Bridge and torch problem : Four people come to a river in the night. There is a narrow bridge, but it can only hold two people at a time. They have one torch and, because it's night, the torch has to be used when crossing the bridge. Person... read more
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Software Engineer Interview Questions & Answers

user image PRINCE KUMAR TOMAR

posted on 25 May 2017

I was interviewed in Mar 2017.

Interview Questionnaire 

2 Questions

  • Q1. Basics of Computer Science
  • Q2. Dynamic Programming and Graphs

Interview Preparation Tips

Round: Test
Total Questions: 1

College Name: NIT Durgapur

Top Samsung Software Engineer Interview Questions and Answers

Q1. Reverse Alternate K nodesYou are given a Singly Linked List of integers and a positive integer 'K'. Modify the linked list by reversing every alternate 'K' nodes of the linked list. A singly linked list is a type of linked list that is unid... read more
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Software Engineer Interview Questions asked at other Companies

Q1. Bridge and torch problem : Four people come to a river in the night. There is a narrow bridge, but it can only hold two people at a time. They have one torch and, because it's night, the torch has to be used when crossing the bridge. Person... read more
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Interview Questionnaire 

2 Questions

  • Q1. Multiple
  • Q2. Multiple.

Interview Preparation Tips

Round: Test
Experience: Graph problem.
First step was to formulate the question into graph problem.

Then solve using standard graph algo (Dijkstra, bellmen ford, e.tc).
Tips: Practice writing whole code without using standard library.
Duration: 3 hours
Total Questions: 1

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: Question related to dfs.
Asked about networking, OS and integers.

One puzzle.(available on geeksforgeeks)
Tips: Prepare for puzzle. Generally they go for standard puzzle.

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: It was mostly related to technical project and internship.

General discussion on machine learning.
Tips: Prepare for the projects mentioned on the resume

Round: HR Interview
Experience: He was testing me regarding how I will explain a technical project to a non-technical guy.. And also general HR questions like why u want to join Samsung and other similar questions.
Tips: Nothing new.

Skills: Basic programming stuff. , Algorithm, Graph Theory, Machine Learning, Problem Solving Skills
College Name: IIT Kharagpur

Top Samsung Software Developer Interview Questions and Answers

Q1. Minimum Time in Wormhole NetworkYou will be given a starting point (sx, sy) and a destination point (dx, dy) in the two-dimensional coordinate system representing the universe. Your spacecraft can move only in X(left or right) or Y(up or do... read more
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Software Developer Interview Questions asked at other Companies

Q1. Maximum Subarray SumGiven an array of numbers, find the maximum sum of any contiguous subarray of the array. For example, given the array [34, -50, 42, 14, -5, 86], the maximum sum would be 137, since we would take elements 42, 14, -5, and ... read more
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Summer Intern Interview Questions & Answers

user image Anonymous

posted on 18 May 2017

I was interviewed in Mar 2017.

Interview Preparation Tips

Round: Test
Experience: The question was very basic and evaluation was based only on correctness of test cases ( processing time not evaluated). About 20 sample test cases were shown which on purpose did not cover all the corner cases. 3 chances were provided to submit.
Tips: Just try to split code into smaller functions so it's easy to debug
Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes
Total Questions: 1

Round: Technical + HR Interview
Experience: Main focus was on concepts from object oriented programming.
The details for the projects mentioned in resume were asked.

College Name: BITS Pilani

Summer Intern Interview Questions asked at other Companies

Q1. There are 8 bottles of milk out of which one bottle is poisoned. What will be the minimum number of persons required to find the poisoned bottle if the person dies within 24 hours of drinking the poison. You have only 24 hours.
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R&D Engineer Interview Questions & Answers

user image Anonymous

posted on 7 May 2017

I was interviewed in Aug 2016.

Interview Questionnaire 

12 Questions

  • Q1. What projects have you done and which did you like and why?
  • Ans. 

    I have worked on various projects including developing a smart irrigation system and designing a robotic arm for industrial use.

    • Developed a smart irrigation system using IoT technology to optimize water usage and increase crop yield.

    • Designed a robotic arm for industrial use that can perform complex tasks with high precision.

    • Developed a machine learning algorithm to predict equipment failure in a manufacturing plant.

    • Cre...

  • Answered by AI
  • Q2. N queens problem
  • Q3. Implementation of stacks with queues and vice versa
  • Ans. 

    Stacks can be implemented using two queues, while queues can be implemented using two stacks.

    • To implement a stack using queues, we can use one queue for storing elements and another temporary queue for operations.

    • To push an element onto the stack, we enqueue it to the temporary queue, then enqueue all elements from the main queue to the temporary queue, and finally swap the names of the two queues.

    • To pop an element fro...

  • Answered by AI
  • Q4. Discussion on an efficient implementation of hash tables using binary tree (was one of my projects).
  • Q5. A program to tell if a knight on a chessboard at a given location can reach another location in <= a given number of moves
  • Ans. 

    Program to check if a knight on a chessboard can reach another location in <= given moves

    • Create a function that takes the starting and ending positions of the knight and the maximum number of moves allowed

    • Use a breadth-first search algorithm to explore all possible moves of the knight within the given number of moves

    • If the ending position is reached within the given number of moves, return true, else return false

  • Answered by AI
  • Q6. Discussion on Machine Learning
  • Q7. Tell me about yorself
  • Q8. What are your interests and hobbies
  • Q9. What irritates you or you don't like
  • Ans. 

    I get irritated by people who are not punctual and don't value other people's time.

    • People who are consistently late

    • People who cancel plans last minute

    • People who don't show up without any notice

    • People who don't apologize for being late or wasting other people's time

  • Answered by AI
  • Q10. How important is the job location to you
  • Q11. Would you join if we make an offer to you
  • Q12. Any plans for higher education

Interview Preparation Tips

Round: Test
Experience: There was one programming question to be solved and submitted. The question was based on Travelling salesman problem
Tips: Be familiar with rather popular questions
Duration: 1 hour
Total Questions: 1

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: The first thing the interviewer did was to take a look at my resume and asked me to tell about the projects i had done. I explained a few that i thought were the better ones. Then he asked about the areas of interest. I mentioned about AI and then we discussed my AI project in detail. After that he asked the above mentioned questions. I answered all of them as they were pretty standard and can be found online easily.
Tips: Search for previous interviews and go through the questions and answers. They help a lot. Also be prepared about everything on your resume

Round: HR Interview
Experience: Nothing more to tell. Asked mostly standard HR type questions
Tips: Prepare yourself for all the cliched HR questions

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: The interviewer saw my resume and e also asked me about my interests. He saw that I had completed machine learning on coursera. So we started discussed ML a great deal (as it turned out later, the guy worked on ML). It started from basic gradient descent, stochasticgradient descent, K means clustering, recommender systems. Our discussion on recommender systems continued to types and uses of different systems in different contexts e.g. how is a movie recommender different to at of Amazon (this was because I told him that i was doing a course on recommender systems). Between all this we also discussed some puzzles and some physics(as it was one of my interests)

Skills: Programming Skills In Any Language Like C, Dynamic Programming (DP), Machine Learning, Logical Puzzles
College Name: BITS Pilani

Skills evaluated in this interview

R&D Engineer Interview Questions asked at other Companies

Q1. give some ideal characteristics of opamp. what is CMRR. what is the practical significance of CMRR. why the input impedance must be large. what is impedance matching, why it has to be done. what is MPTT and its advantages. explain about D-A... read more
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I was interviewed before May 2016.

Interview Preparation Tips

Round: Resume Shortlist
Experience: We were asked to submit the resume and on the basis of our work experience in college, we were shortlisted

Round: Group Discussion
Duration: 10 hours

College Name: Manipal Institute Of Technology, Manipal

Technical Engineer Interview Questions asked at other Companies

Q1. The hydraulic steering device of a dish antenna for satellite tracking works by adjusting the elevation using a hydraulic ram. Oil can be pumped into the ram to raise the elevation. The hydraulic seals leak pressure very slowly such that ad... read more
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Jobs at Samsung

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I was interviewed in Nov 2016.

Interview Preparation Tips

Round: Resume Shortlist
Experience: Students above 7.00 cgpa were shortlisted for the test.

Round: Test
Experience: It was a coding test for 3 hours where we were given a scenario to be solved using our programming skills. The question could be solved in any programming language comfortable. The shortlisting depends on the number of test cases passed. There are about 50 test cases for the question.
Duration: 3 hours
Total Questions: 1

Skills: Programming Skills In Any Language Like C
College Name: Thapar University, Patiala

Top Samsung Software Developer Interview Questions and Answers

Q1. Minimum Time in Wormhole NetworkYou will be given a starting point (sx, sy) and a destination point (dx, dy) in the two-dimensional coordinate system representing the universe. Your spacecraft can move only in X(left or right) or Y(up or do... read more
View answer (2)

Software Developer Interview Questions asked at other Companies

Q1. Maximum Subarray SumGiven an array of numbers, find the maximum sum of any contiguous subarray of the array. For example, given the array [34, -50, 42, 14, -5, 86], the maximum sum would be 137, since we would take elements 42, 14, -5, and ... read more
View answer (39)

I applied via campus placement at Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology (NIT), Bhopal and was interviewed before Dec 2015. There were 5 interview rounds.

Interview Questionnaire 

4 Questions

  • Q1. In this everyone were asked to describe their projects that they have done during the B-tech course
  • Q2. Puzzle-There are 1000 wine bottles. One of the bottles contains poisoned wine. A rat dies after one hour of drinking the poisoned wine. How many minimum rats are needed to figure out which bottle contains ...
  • Q3. Discussion on projects
  • Q4. Basic HR Question like- 1.your strength and weaknesses. 2.what are your expectation from your first job. 3.Hobbies. 4.would you go for higher study

Interview Preparation Tips

Round: Test
Experience: Given an undirected graph determine if the graph can be colored with 2 colors(Black & white) such that no two adjacent vertices of the graph are colored with same color.If yes print the nodes whose color is white else output -1.
This question was similar to------/
Duration: 3 hours
Total Questions: 1

College Name: NIT Bhopal

Software Development Engineer Interview Questions asked at other Companies

Q1. Given an acyclic graph of a city where each edge represents a road in the city and each vertex represents an crossing. Write an algo to find out the minimum number of vertices at which a policemen will be kept so that all the roads are cove... read more
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Research Engineer Interview Questions & Answers

user image Rohith Aralikatti

posted on 7 Dec 2016

I applied via campus placement at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Chennai and was interviewed in Dec 2016. There were 6 interview rounds.

Interview Questionnaire 

1 Question

  • Q1. They mostly ask questions about DSA

Interview Preparation Tips

Round: Resume Shortlist
Experience: Those with CGPA of greater than 8.0 from CS and Elec were allowed to write the test.

Round: Test
Experience: Find the index at which a monotonically increasing sequence attains a given value. Naive implementation of binary search worked.
Tips: 1. Make sure all test cases pass. Else you wont be considered for next round.
2. Make sure you use the right data types. The numbers given were in the range of 2^63 and unless you use long long - the test cases will not pass.
3. The coding test allows only C, C++ or Java.
Duration: 3 hours
Total Questions: 1

Round: Technical + HR Interview
Experience: They'll also ask you about your projects and internships. I had done projects in ML. So, they asked related questions regarding PCA, Linear Algebra and Spectral Decomposition. Basically, explain your project thoroughly and be able to answer questions related to projects well.
Tips: I had two technical and one HR round. Answer HR questions convincingly or you wont get selected. They'll ask you why you prefer Samsung over other companies (don't mention if you have interviews with Goldman, if you do give convincing reasons as to why you wont join Goldman over Samsung). They'll ask you about plans for higher studies. They basically want to give offers to people who are likely to accept the offer. Convince them of this and you are done.

Skills: Data Structures And Algorithms, Machine Learning, Linear Algebra
College Name: IIT Madras

Research Engineer Interview Questions asked at other Companies

Q1. Why did you use such a high degree polynomial fit?
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Software Engineer Interview Questions & Answers

user image Srikant Padala

posted on 5 Dec 2016

I applied via campus placement at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Chennai and was interviewed in Dec 2016. There were 5 interview rounds.

Interview Questionnaire 

3 Questions

  • Q1. Basic question from resume
  • Q2. Basic concepts of distributed systems, coding, Business problem discussion
  • Q3. Demonetization problem
  • Ans. 

    Demonetization problem refers to the sudden withdrawal of high-value currency notes from circulation.

    • Demonetization can lead to cash shortages and economic disruption.

    • It can also have long-term effects on the economy, such as increased digitization and reduced corruption.

    • Examples of demonetization include India's 2016 demonetization of 500 and 1000 rupee notes and Zimbabwe's 2015 demonetization of its currency.

    • Software...

  • Answered by AI

Interview Preparation Tips

Round: Test
Experience: Given a marathon racer and an array of 5 elements having the time taken (t_i) and energy spent(e_i) for running 1 Km. He has to run a marathon of D Km and expending atmost E energy. Find the minimum time required to run the marathon. Once he starts a 1 Km sprint, he has to continue at the same speed till the 1 Km is complete.
Tips: Try Brute force, if nothing works.

I used a*e_1+b*e_2+c*e_3+d*e_4+e * e_5 <= E
and a+b+c+d+e = D

Solve these two equation and minimize a*t_1+b*t_2+c*t_3+d*t_4+e * t_5
Duration: 3 hours
Total Questions: 1

Round: HR Interview
Experience: Family background, About the HIPC coding competition that we won. Publication, etc

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: This round was to test my knowledge on distributed systems and problem thinking skills.
Coding question
-----/

Q)What new feature will you add in Television?
I initially said, recommendation. But he said what more. Then I said gesture control.

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: All the currency notes are demonetized, You as RBI cheif have to distribute the 500 cr given by center for chennai have to distribute to various, public sector, private sector, and cooperative banks in the city. You have all the transactions data available with you. Solve this problem with your knowledge of distributed systems.

Skills: General Coding And Problem Solving
College Name: IIT Madras

Top Samsung Software Engineer Interview Questions and Answers

Q1. Reverse Alternate K nodesYou are given a Singly Linked List of integers and a positive integer 'K'. Modify the linked list by reversing every alternate 'K' nodes of the linked list. A singly linked list is a type of linked list that is unid... read more
View answer (3)

Software Engineer Interview Questions asked at other Companies

Q1. Bridge and torch problem : Four people come to a river in the night. There is a narrow bridge, but it can only hold two people at a time. They have one torch and, because it's night, the torch has to be used when crossing the bridge. Person... read more
View answer (169)

Samsung Interview FAQs

How many rounds are there in Samsung interview?
Samsung interview process usually has 2-3 rounds. The most common rounds in the Samsung interview process are Resume Shortlist, One-on-one Round and HR.
How to prepare for Samsung interview?
Go through your CV in detail and study all the technologies mentioned in your CV. Prepare at least two technologies or languages in depth if you are appearing for a technical interview at Samsung. The most common topics and skills that interviewers at Samsung expect are Marketing, Sales, Hardware, Logistics and Quality.
What are the top questions asked in Samsung interview?

Some of the top questions asked at the Samsung interview -

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How long is the Samsung interview process?

The duration of Samsung interview process can vary, but typically it takes about less than 2 weeks to complete.

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