J'ai postulé en ligne. Le processus a pris 4 semaines. J'ai passé un entretien chez F5 (Seattle, WA) en sept. 2013
Entretien
One phone session followed by 5 sessions of 1-1 interviews. HR was all praises on how good F5 is but I found it quite otherwise. We discussed salaries and F5 pays well. Technology is good, but they have some old timers who are trying to protect their turf. The office location is decent, but the buildings shake when trains pass through.
2/5 Interviewers were very well prepared and had specific questions related to position and work at the team. Even though I did not nail all the questions, I enjoyed the discussions and the problem solving mode they worked in. DNS, HTTP, TCP/IP, C++, Security, Data Structures.
1/5 interviewer asked very open ended general questions. I caught him yawning, before lunch.
2/5 interviewers were not well prepared and to a certain extent were hostile, aggressive and offensive. Both were older. One was very knowledgeable but arrogant. It was difficult to understand whether this person was asking a question or just giving an opinion for me to comment on. Twice, the other interviewer hinted that I was lying about how I executed on a problem and project. Did not provide any supporting evidence for me to counter. I tried to defend myself but this one nodded, waved and moved on, making notes and letting me know who was in control and who was being judged. This nasty behavior put me off for the rest of my time at F5.
My own assessment after the interviews was that I did good technically at 3/5 interviews and ok at 1/5 but this team will not be a good cultural fit.
Questions d'entretien [1]
Question 1
I did not fare too well on DNS use cases and data structures around them.
First hiring manager, networking domain round, coding round, behavioral round. Merge Sort was asked in coding round. Question related to load balancer were asked in networking round. Networking fundamentals were asked too.
Questions d'entretien [1]
Question 1
How does server send response to load balancer instead of client ip
J'ai postulé via un recruteur. Le processus a pris 4 semaines. J'ai passé un entretien chez F5 (Hyderâbâd) en avr. 2022
Entretien
They do not have a proper interview procedure.
They will conduct as many rounds as per their wish and ask you to attended.
And moreover they do not know this position is really required or not until last minute.
After clearing all the interviews, they will ask to share the required documents.
Finally you will receive a call from HR saying that the current position is on hold by the hiring manager.
This is the experience I faced recently.
J'ai postulé en ligne. Le processus a pris 1 semaine. J'ai passé un entretien chez F5 (Hyderâbâd) en juil. 2021
Entretien
Applied through Company website
HackerRank Initial screening. MCQ (Network fundamentals) and 3 Problem solving questions.
5 Virtual Interviews ( 2 Technical, 1 HM, 1 Behavioral, 1 HR). All interviews conducted were in a week.
Questions d'entretien [1]
Question 1
- Medium DSA/ Problem Solving
- OS Fundamentals: Process, Threads etc
- Networking Fundamentals
- Cultural/ Behavioral questions