Samsung SDE Intern 2025 Interview Experience

I recently had the opportunity to interview for the Software Development Engineer (SDE) Intern role at Samsung (On-Campus). Here’s a detailed breakdown of the entire process and my experience: 1️⃣ Onl

I recently had the opportunity to interview for the Software Development Engineer (SDE) Intern role at Samsung (On-Campus). Here’s a detailed breakdown of the entire process and my experience: 1️⃣ Online Assessment (OA) The first round was a 3-hour coding assessment, which is Samsung’s standard OA format. It included one DSA problem based on Dynamic Programming. Students who

passed all 50/50 test cases were shortlisted for the

next round. I was able to solve the problem completely within 1 hour. Make sure to write most optimized time and space complexity code. 2️⃣ Pen-and-Paper Round (45 minutes) In this round, we were given two DSA problems and had to write pseudocode/code on paper. Questions: 1. Graph BFS Problem: The question involved performing BFS traversal with two subparts — (a) Modify a matrix to a given condition, and (b) Revert the changes made. 2. Binary Search Problem – Book Allocation Problem Link : https://leetcode.com/problems/allocate-books/ I wrote a well-structured pseudocode with proper comments and readable code , and used structs/classes to represent different objects. 3️⃣ Technical Interview (1 hour) This was a DSA-heavy round, and multiple problems were discussed: Jump Game I – LeetCode Link : https://leetcode.com/problems/jump-game/ Jump Game II – LeetCode Link: https://leetcode.com/problems/jump-game-ii/ Detect Cycle in a Linked List – LeetCode Link: https://leetcode.com/problems/linked-list-cycle/ Intersection of Two Linked Lists – LeetCode Link: https://leetcode.com/problems/intersection-of-two-linked-lists/ Max Heap Implementation and Heap Sort concepts A bit manipulation question — specifically, how to toggle the 13th bit of a number. 4️⃣

HR Round (10 minutes) This was a short and friendly round that included: Self-introduction and family background A few general HR questions One puzzle, which I was able to answer correctly. 🏁 Final Outcome I was delighted to receive an offer for the SDE Intern position at Samsung’s Noida office