Ciena Interview Questions

Application

I applied online. The process took 3+ months. I interviewed at Ciena (San Jose, CA).

Interview

I was contacted by a recruiter and he set up a phone call with one of the Managers. He asked me a couple of questions on my resume and about my previous work experience.
Then, he scheduled me for 2 interviews. The first interviewer was very friendly. He told me about the role and the technologies they were using; asked me a few questions on multi threading and Java. Gave me a coding question which was quite easy.
The second interviewer was very rude. He asked about one of my projects and gave me a coding question. He would not explain what the question was and when I asked him how the output is theoretically calculated , he would not answer it. He asked me to define my own input in a separate class. Understanding the question, the input and output and he wouldn't even give me the input. All this in 20 mins was an overkill for Software Engineer 1. He was very unprofessional in the way he spoke. When I was finally able to structure my answer, he started typing to check weather I was copying the solution from the internet which I thought was very rude.
I would suggest your interview would depend on your interviewers.
It is a nice company to work for based on other reviews and the work they do is pretty exciting.

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Application

I applied online. I interviewed at Ciena (San Jose, CA).

Interview

4 round white board coding. First 3 with engineers in the team, and last round with manager. Will take you to lunch. People are nice.

1st round ask coding questions of linked list.
2nd round ask coding questions of linked list, binary search tree.
3rd round ask coding questions of graph, prime number, and fibonacci.

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Application

I applied through college or university. The process took 3 days. I interviewed at Ciena (San Jose, CA) in March 2012.

Interview

If you are fluent in C and basic of Data structures and algorithms, and have knowledge about fundamentals of OS, the interview process should be a piece of cake.

If you have worked previously or have good networking knowledge it will be a plus.

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Application

I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Ciena (Linthicum, MD) in May 2010.

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Applied online and was contacted by HR for initial phone screen and then came in for inperson interview with supervisor and manager in the department

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Negotiation

they made an offer and i negotiated based on my experience and what i had to offer

Application

I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Ciena.

Interview

Initial Phone Interview- The Account Manager, interviewer, seemed annoyed from the beginning of our conversation. It was a very unpleasant experience. Maybe I caught her at a bad time, but I would not want to report to her on a daily basis.

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Application

I applied through a recruiter. The process took a week. I interviewed at Ciena (Hanover, MD) in June 2009.

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They tend to like starting people out as 1 year contractors and then full time afterwards. They are honest about it though.

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Negotiation

HR on the phone. They pretended that I asked for too much money but gave it to me anyway.

Application

I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Ciena (Hanover, MD) in June 2014.

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HR call, then call with manager, then on-site interview. Basic questions about your resumes and personality. some specific job required questions. Overall, pretty easy and simple. learn about the position as questions will be about that.

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Application

I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Ciena (Hanover, MD) in March 2016.

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I was contacted by HR about my application and confirming all the details on my resume. HR then passed my resume on for the technical interview and they made a phone interview appointment with the team manger. In the technical phone interview, we reviewed my resume, asked about company history, past experience, and talk about position description / benefits.

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Application

I applied in-person. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Ciena (Spokane, WA) in May 2016.

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3 1 hour interviews. Asked basic C coding questions as well as touched on networking and operating system basics. Very friendly and conversational, nothing too hard. Look for problem solving and helped you through the problem if needed. Each 1 hour interview segment consisted of 2 employees that you would be working with.

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Application

I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Ciena in October 2013.

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I received a call from the Hiring manager for short 30 mins call and later went into detailed technical interview rounds

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