Ciena·Software Engineer

Ciena Software Engineer interview experience

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San Jose, CAPosted Mar 2016 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My process turned into a full whiteboard-style run.

I ended up with four rounds of coding on a board, split across the team and a final conversation with a manager. The first three rounds were with engineers, and the last round was with the manager; there was even a lunch built around the interview day, and the people I met felt genuinely friendly.

The questions stayed very hands-on and structured around core problem types. I was asked to code linked list work in the first round. The next engineer round continued with linked list questions and added binary search tree problems. By the third round, I was dealing with graph-related coding

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