Ciena·Software Engineer

Ciena Software Engineer interview experience

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Negative

New DelhiPosted Jun 2018 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I ended up in a fairly brutal, high-pressure sequence that started with technical evaluation and only later gave me any hint of how the final decision worked.

I first went through a written test and found it unexpectedly tricky—dense questions covering .NET and C# topics, with a pace that pushed for depth rather than surface familiarity. Even after finishing that part, I still ran into trouble in the next technical discussion.

The face-to-face rounds felt like repeated checkpoints: technical sessions led by team leaders and then more technical evaluations deeper into the process, followed by managerial and director-level rounds, and eventually HR. Across the technical stages, the questions leaned into core language and deeper problem-solving, and

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