Samsung Interview Questions (2024) - 8 Entries

Samsung Interview Questions

8 total interview insight submissions

Interview Experience (87%)

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The percentile score in the title is calculated across the entire Company Database and uses an adjusted score based on Bayesian Estimates (to account for companies that have few interview insights). Simply put, as a company gets more reviews, the confidence of a "true score" increases so it is pulled closer to its simple average and away from the average of the entire dataset.

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Interview Difficulty (84%)

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The number you see in the middle of the doughnut pie chart is the simple average of these scores. The higher the number, the more difficult the interviews on average. If you hover over the various sections of the doughnut, you will see the % breakdown of each score given.

The percentile score in the title is calculated across the entire Company Database and uses an adjusted score based on Bayesian Estimates (to account for companies that have few interview insights). Simply put, as a company gets more insights, the confidence of a "true score" increases so it is pulled closer to its simple average and away from the average of the entire data set.

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% Interns - FT Offers (46%)

The % of Interns Getting a Full Time Offer chart is meant to provide a realistic estimate of the hiring practices of the company based on the reviews at this company.

The number you see in the middle of the doughnut pie chart is the simple average of these scores. If you hover over the various sections of the doughnut, you will see the % breakdown of each score given.

The percentile score in the title is calculated across the entire Company Database and uses an adjusted score based on Bayesian Estimates (to account for companies that have few reviews). Simply put, as a company gets more reviews, the confidence of a "true score" increases so it is pulled closer to the simple company average and away from the average of the entire data set.

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Interviews at Samsung

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Year

Job Title

Group/Division

Location

Experience

Difficulty

Engineer

Year 2016

Job Title Engineer

Group/Division N/A

Location Dhanbad

Experience

Neutral

Difficulty

Average

Consultant

Year 2020

Job Title Consultant

Group/Division Technology Consulting

Location Soeul

Experience

Positive

Difficulty

Difficult

1st Year Associate

Year 2019

Job Title 1st Year Associate

Group/Division Strategy

Location Seoul

Experience

Positive

Difficulty

Average

Intern

Year 2017

Job Title Intern

Group/Division Marketing

Location San Jose

Experience

Positive

Difficulty

Easy

Student / Prospective Monkey

Year 2011

Job Title Student / Prospective Monkey

Group/Division Other

Location Warsaw

Experience

Very Positive

Difficulty

Easy

Intern

Year 2017

Job Title Intern

Group/Division Supply Chain

Location New Jersey City

Experience

Very Positive

Difficulty

Easy

Intern

Year 2016

Job Title Intern

Group/Division Information Technology (IT)

Location Bangalore

Experience

Positive

Difficulty

Average

Summer Associate Intern

Year 2009

Job Title Summer Associate Intern

Group/Division Generalist

Location New York

Experience

Neutral

Difficulty

Average

Interview Questions & Answers - Samsung Examples

Engineer Interview

Anonymous employee in Dhanbad

Interviewed: January 2016

Date Submitted: Apr 24, 2023

Outcome

Accepted Offer

Interview Source

Employee Referral

Length of Process

Less than 1 month

Application

1 on 1 Interview

Interview

Hiring process consists of coding round that was writting ,after that coding we had 2 rounds of technical interviews and 1 round of HR

Interview Questions

Given a binary tree with the following TreeNode, create a copy of the tree without using any extra space.

Sample Answer

Global Strategy Consultant Interview - Technology Consulting

Anonymous interview candidate in Soeul

Interviewed: September 2020

Date Submitted: Oct 26, 2020

Outcome

No Offer

Interview Source

College / University / On Campus Recruiting

Length of Process

Less than 1 month

Application

1 on 1 Interview

Other

Interview

1st round was a pre-recorded interview asking the standard behavioral/scenario questions.
2nd and final round (different from other years, because of COVID-19 I suppose) was a joint 45 min fit interview and a 45 min case interview. The fit covered why Samsung, why Seoul, and some targeted questions regarding the business area I was interested in. The case interview was focused on a new market entry issue that Samsung had seen in the past.
It was efficient and the people at Samsung were nice.

Interview Questions

An unexpected question was to tell them about a time I had failed and why it had failed.

Sample Answer

Samsung GSG Interview - Strategy

Anonymous interview candidate in Seoul

Interviewed: October 2019

Date Submitted: Oct 17, 2019

Outcome

No Offer

Interview Source

College / University / On Campus Recruiting

Length of Process

Less than 1 month

Application

1 on 1 Interview

Group Interview

Interview

Interviewed for the Samsung GSG team out of my MBA, interview had 3 parts, group case, individual case, and fit. Was led by two europeans on the GSG team but many other Korean team members sat in and listened (maybe asked 1-2 questions.) Individual case was similar to a McKinsey style interviewer led case.

Interview Questions

Interview was pretty straightforward. Group case there were four people in the room, each was assigned a role and then we had to choose between various options for the best strategy to revamp businesses in a challenging market. The fit interview was pretty standard, why samsung, talk about your resume, etc. Definitely be prepared for why do you want to live in Korea and what parts of the company would you want to work in after GSG. Individual case was similar to a Mckinsey format. Drew out a simple framework then got 5-6 exhibits to react to and interpret.

Sample Answer

Samsung Interview - Marketing

Anonymous interview candidate in San Jose

Interviewed: April 2017

Date Submitted: Feb 28, 2018

Outcome

Declined Offer

Interview Source

Employee Referral

Length of Process

1-2 months

Application

Phone Interview

1 on 1 Interview

Interview

I applied online through an employee referral and they reached out to me. I had a nice chat with the recruiter and she called me in a final interview. Overall the process was very relaxed and easy.

Interview Questions

The questions I were asked were actually pretty easy. Most of them were behavioral and gauging my overall interest in the company. They gave me questions like "Why Samsung?" and "why do you want to be an summer product marketing intern in our department?" Then they asked me questions based on my prior internship experience and how I felt the skills I had developed were going to help contribute to their team today. Their last part of the interview was mainly going over my excel skills and whether or not I could create simple Excel functions like pivot tables and vlookups. Overall an easy and relaxed process.

Sample Answer

Intern Interview - Other

Anonymous employee in Warsaw

Interviewed: December 2011

Date Submitted: Nov 12, 2017

Outcome

Accepted Offer

Interview Source

Applied Online

Length of Process

Less than 1 month

Application

Phone Interview

1 on 1 Interview

Interview

Interview for Cheil Worldwide
The interviewer asked the following questions
1) why Advertising
2) what you like to do on your free time
3) what is your take on the following ad
4) what is your future plan
5) how do you cope with stress

Interview Questions

The most difficult question asked was about what my take on a piece of Advertising was.
The advertising consisted of a red toothpaste that had a label on it. The advertising was on the side of a bus and looked to be a failure of an advertising because it hadn't really captured the attention of those passing by it. I thought that the picutre could use more of a spark and that the advertising had to spark between all the advertising around it. So I tried to make sense of the situation, place and the people around it.

Sample Answer

Finance intern Interview - Supply Chain

Anonymous employee in New Jersey City

Interviewed: January 2017

Date Submitted: Aug 18, 2017

Outcome

Accepted Offer

Interview Source

Employee Referral

Length of Process

1-2 months

Application

Phone Interview

1 on 1 Interview

Background Check

Interview

Was referred by an employee. Later contacted by HR for two rounds of interviews. First one is regular behavioral phone interview while second was with HR recruiter.

Interview Questions

There were mostly behavioral and fit questions, asking about prior experiences in corporate finance, general background, situational cases to assess team-based and client-based interaction skills and working under pressure. Basic technical questions for accounting. More harder questions were some product analysis questions. Was also given some hypothetical situations and asked how I would proceed to deal with these. Overall just be confident and prepare your story and sell your story well and you won't be stumped.

Sample Answer

Internship Interview - Information Technology (IT)

Anonymous interview candidate in Bangalore

Interviewed: August 2016

Date Submitted: Aug 04, 2017

Outcome

Declined Offer

Interview Source

College / University / On Campus Recruiting

Length of Process

Less than 1 month

Application

Group Interview

Skills Test

IQ / Intelligence Test

Interview

Samsung came down to our campus for their hiring process for both job and internship. The first round was the IQ round which lasted for 20-30 mins. After the first round around 30% of the candidates were eliminated. The next round was coding round where we had 3 questions to be done their platform in the C language. People who were able to solve 2-3 questions were called for the group discussion after which the interns were selected.

Interview Questions

The most difficult or unexpected question was the group discussion round where we had to speak about Samsung vs Apple.
It was a difficult question given that we were not given any time to prepare for the round and no prior information on the type of questions to be asked by them on the given topic.
We were very tensed about the answered since we had no clue. But we given 10 mins to jot down our thoughts and understand the question well. Structure our answers and come up with the best possible scenario. We were 10 people sitting there and it was a competetive environment. We were very aggressive in our approach to make our voices heard.

Sample Answer

Samsung Interview - Generalist

Anonymous interview candidate in New York

Interviewed: 2009

Date Submitted: Dec 09, 2015

Outcome

No Offer

Interview Source

Applied Online

Length of Process

Less than 1 month

Application

Phone Interview

Interview

First interview with HR rep. Asked about background, career till now, and why wanted to apply for the position

Interview Questions

Nothing in particular. Very standard HR questions - tell about yourself, career till now, why are you interested in this position

Sample Answer

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