F5 Networks·Software Engineer

F5 Networks Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Hard

Negative

United StatesPosted Jan 2015 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I was contacted through LinkedIn and then went through the recruiting side of scheduling, but the experience felt unusually unstructured.

The process largely relied on an assistant to set up a call, and the recruiter follow-up communication felt minimal. During the phone discussion, I was told to write code on an online whiteboard, which sounded standard, but it didn’t translate into a real attempt.

What I found frustrating was that the interviewer seemed to decide prematurely based on my resume and didn’t let me meaningfully proceed with the coding exercise. The tone felt like I was being filtered out rather than evaluated, and it ended up turning into a quick shutdown instead of a real interview where I could demonstrate I

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