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Updated Jan 26, 2012 – Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates.
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Senior Software Engineer at F5 Networks
Posted Jan 26, 2012
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4.0
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Jan 2012 (took 3 days)
The interview involved a phone screen, then 1:1 interviews with 6 people, which last more than 5 hours long, it was really tiresome. the questions I got mostly matched one of the guy who posted his interview here, they asked very tricky question like finding longest palindrome, multiplication with shiftting, finding the next larger number that's power of 2, compression algorithm, etc; I did fairly okay on the programming questions, but honestly, those questions were quite disconnected from my background and experience.
I hear nothing after the interview and pinged the recruiting staff, then he said he going to circle back to me in a day, two days it has been, still nothing. As a working professional, I respected the company and interview, so I do expect at least hear something back, I think that's not so much to ask I believe.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.
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Network Engineer at F5 Networks
Posted Jan 10, 2012
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Jan 2012 (took 1 week)
I applied for the role of a Network Support Engineer with F5 Networks in Surrey, UK. I got a reply from the HR Lead person within minutes of applying asking for a convenient time for a telcom interview as well as a short technical 'assessment'. I responded with a time range asking that they pick an appropriate time and communicate same back to me. The appointment was shortly confirmed for the the next week and I was quite excited at the opportunity to interview.
On the day of the phone interview, I took out time to go over the advertised role and my CV, hoping that I'd be prepared enough. That was very poor judgment on my part!
Preliminary questions went very well. They seemed to have on offer my dream role and I was quite pleased with that. Then came the technical assessment part of the interview. To be honest, although I have some 8 years plus experience with IT systems, I was quite taken aback with how much I had lost touch with the basics. Questions asked were grouped according to the following topics:
i. Layer 2 (OSI)
ii. Layer3,
iii. Layer 4
iv. UNIX/Linux
v. DNS
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Software Engineer III at F5 Networks
Posted Jan 2, 2012
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Jun 2011 in Seattle, WA (took a day)
I submitted a resume through f5.com and didn't hear back for a good 4 weeks. At that time I had an initial phone screen interview which was pretty basic and more digging for experience. In a few days a 3 1/2 hour interview was scheduled where I met with various team members in a group interview setting. Questions included basic technical knowledge questions to white boarding various programming problems.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a Group/Panel Interview.
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Senior Software Engineer at F5 Networks
Posted Dec 31, 2011
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Oct 2011 (took a day)
highly technical interview with emphasis on low-level software tricks and tips in C programming for ex. compute next highest power of 2 in O(1) time, given a pointer to elem in singly linked list delete the elem in O(1) time, find largest palindrome in string, print binary representation of number, multiply two numbers using just shift and add, find first occurence of a number in an array with duplicates, find missing number in array of size N containing numbers from 1 to N only, iterative solution to computing fibonacci series, largest sum of consecutive numbers in an array with negative numbers, average/worst case time complexity of heapsort, mergesort and quicksort, which sorting will you use and when etc.,
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I got the interview through an Employee Referral and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview, a Group/Panel Interview and a Skills Test.
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Network Support Engineer at F5 Networks
Posted Dec 14, 2011
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Jan 2011 (took 1 week)
The job description is not adequate to the real job you do.
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I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Skills Test.
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Network Support Engineer at F5 Networks
Posted Dec 14, 2011
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2.0
Easy Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Nov 2011 (took 4 days)
Phone interview 1:1 interciew
Interview Questions
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.
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Product Manager at F5 Networks
Posted Nov 23, 2011
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Negative Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Jul 2009 in Seattle, WA (took 9 months)
In person interviews with hiring manager, VP and SVP - as well as other managers in the functional group. Application was reviewed quarterly - "hiring after quarterly revenue was reported" and requisitions were reviewed. Interview process was concluded with a interview with the functional SVP reviewing his organization with me in a white board presentation.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.
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Engineering at F5 Networks
Posted Nov 10, 2011
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Aug 2011 in San Jose, CA (took a day)
Very confusing, job description for the position is some thing and the panel was expecting some thing different.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a Group/Panel Interview, a Skills Test and a Personality Test.
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Software Engineer at F5 Networks
Posted Nov 2, 2011
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Aug 2011 in San Jose, CA (took a day)
Interviewer asked questions mainly on technologies I was not familiar with. I told him that I didn't know those technologies, but he still proceeded with the questions, which makes me think he had a set list of questions and wasn't prepared to alter the interview based on the applicant.
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I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Network Engineer at F5 Networks
Posted Oct 31, 2011
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Oct 2011 in Seattle, WA (took 4 days)
The interview process consisted of two parts. One part team technical interview and second part high level though process one on one style. Overall I enjoyed the interview sessions. The only pain factor was that they were setup with one day’s notice, this made it kind of difficult to schedule around my previous employer.
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I got the interview through an Employee Referral and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview and a Group/Panel Interview.
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