RejectedTechnical Screen

Panicked on a String Palindrome and Failed the Screen

SamsungMachine Learning Engineer · Technical Screen · Sep 2025

I'm new to industry and to LeetCode, not a CS major, and I recently gave up on academia to try to switch into industry. I got lucky and landed a first-round interview with Samsung, one hour, with a senior staff interviewer. The whole thing was scheduled in a rush — the confirmation email with the interview link only went out the day before, and it wasn't until I saw the coding link that I realize…

Shared by a candidate · reported Sep 2025. Interview formats change; use it as a guide, not a script.