Stage-1
Eligibility: 7.0 and above
Branches allowed: CSE, IT, ECE, EE
Job Location: Bangalore
Stipend: 50,000 per month
Provision of PPO: Yes
Stage-2
It was an on campus Coding contest of 3 hours conducted on Samsung SWC Test software having only one question
of 10 test cases. The question was :-
Given an equation,
Y = a*x + b*x*floor (log2 n) + cx^3 and a variable K
1 <= a, b <= 100, 0<=c<=100, Y<2^63 – 1, x>=1
a, b and c are also given
We have to find the value of x for which Y=K, but as values for Y and K are very large, simple linear search for the
value x would only solve few test cases but binary search would work fine for all test cases.
Those who solved all the test cases were shortlisted for further rounds. 25+ students got shortlisted.
Stage-3
Technical cum HR round. (Duration : 45 minutes)
Interview started with the interviewer asking me to relax as I was seemingly nervous. He then asked for my resume
and asked me what courses have I studied till the last sem. Then he asked which one’s my favorite. I replied
Data Structures but he asked me to say apart from that. I was a bit confused by that time because I was appearing
for a software position and all the other subjects I mentioned was core subjects of ECE. But the interviewer told
me that since I cleared the online test I must be knowing software related things so he would ask questions from
my favorite course other than DS. I told him that I like Signals and Systems and then he asked a series of basic
questions from that subject like the steps in Analog to Digital Conversion, Fourier Transform, sampling,
Nyquist rate, quantization, etc. I guess I answered 60% of the questions correctly.
After this he asked me some general questions like why Samsung ? How will you contribute as an employee?
What all technologies you are interested in ? etc. Most of my answers were inclined towards implementing
DS Algo in all the technologies. I did mention of machine learning but when he asked if I know about any of the
ML algorithms, I said that I don’t.
At last, he asked me a coding question :
-> Given an array of integers, find the three minimum and three maximum elements in minimum number of comparisons.
(Complexity <O(n))
I told him about the various approach I could think of like using heap, etc. He gave me a hint that it can be solved by
divide and conquer method. I told him about a kind of merge sort algorithm but he was not satisfied. Then he briefly
told me the approach to the solution.
At last he asked if I had any question questions for him, I asked him about the technologies Samsung is
working on, he replied and asked if I have any further questions for him, I asked what does he expect from
an intern to which he replied that they should be good in their subjects(ECE in my case).
After this, I had very little hope of getting selected.
After this, I had very little hope of getting selected.
Result
After few hours, the result came out and 4 students including me got selected for the internship role at Samsung R&D.
Suggestions :-
Suggestions :-
- Be confident about whatever you answer and if you don’t know anything just say no. Don’t bluff the interviewer.
- Since I interviewed for other companies as well I’d say that have an idea about basic OOPs concepts.
- Be thorough with whatever you write on your resume.
- Don’t be nervous and do not sit idle in the interview, keep communicating with the interviewer.
- If you are good at coding, it will give you an edge over others.
- Practice for online round of interviews on platforms like gfg and Interview Bit as the questions are different from competitive programming questions.
