Ciena·Software Engineer

Ciena Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Hard

Negative

BengaluruPosted Oct 2020 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I went through a process that ended with rejection, and it felt especially rough because of how the communication landed.

After a written test cleared, I had five interview rounds. They kept all the rounds going even though scheduling pushed into late evening time, and when the final decision came, it arrived as a rejection message. What annoyed me was that HR reminded me repeatedly to attend each stage earlier on, but once I was rejected, I never even got a call for feedback.

The process also had a split feeling after the interview: I’ve been in moments where the team showed interest right after the interview day—like they walked me through labs downstairs, which felt like a good signal. In my case, the signal

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