F5 Networks Software Engineer interview experience

Onsite meant 1:1 interviews with six different people, and each segment ran more than five hours total. It was exhausting, and by the end I felt mentally drained more than anything.

The questions were mostly aligned with what I’d heard before from others, but they were undeniably tricky. I remember problems like finding the longest palindrome, doing multiplication using shifting, finding the next larger number that’s a power of two, and implementing a compression algorithm. I could handle the programming fairly well, but the disconnect from my background made it feel tougher than it