Ciena·Software Engineer

Ciena Software Engineer interview experience

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Ottawa, ONPosted Jul 2017 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My interview started with a recruiting agent setting things up over the phone, and then my main interview lasted about two and a half hours.

The opening was very professional: my manager-to-be greeted me first, walked through my resume and experience, and didn’t dive into heavy technical testing. The whole theme stayed more conversation-based than quiz-and-coding.

After the manager discussion, the interview shifted to a panel format. I went through two successive sessions with two Principal-level software engineers on my immediate team, and then a separate pairing that included another Principal-level engineer along with a different manager. They talked through the products the team worked on and how my experience connected to

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