I applied online. The process took 6 weeks. I interviewed at F5 in Dec 2014
Interview
Applied online, took a long time to get the phone screen scheduled because the HR personel was on vacation. Finally, had a phone interview after 3 weeks of application. It was like a typical screening interview touching various topics on networking and system (linux). Then I flew to Seattle and had 1:1. The onsite was 2 hours technical and then managerial/behavioral of 30 mins each.
The good things is not only they pay for the flight but also the taxi, meal etc.
It was a 4.5 hours interview for this role, including technical (tcp/ip, udp, dns, http, https), soft skills, escalation skills and troubleshooting skills. A scenario was given to evaluate your over-all skill set.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
tcp/ip, udp, dns, http, ssl,
how to troubleshoot a slow network
I applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at F5
Interview
Got a Call from the HR for phone screening.asked about basic linux commands and networking commands. the differences and where we apply them. The call was from UK and the interviewer was very precise on the questions.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
command to check routing table in linux
command to check disk space in linux
command to list running processes in linux
example of linux file system
difference between /var/log/syslog and /var/log/messages
what is http header
.what is ping? what is the difference between ping and traceroute.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at F5 (London, England) in Sep 2015
Interview
2 sessions of tech interview, in each one there were 2 interviewers.
1 session with managers, 2 managers.
First one was network related general questions with 2 engineers. You can prepare for this by reviewing OSI reference model and TCP/IP
The 2nd session was diverse questions about computing system, mostly based on linux system.
If you get manager session, you are selected already and it is just a session of seeing your future manager.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Network related questions, from layer 2 ~ 7.
Linux related questions.
