F5 Networks·Software Engineer

F5 Networks Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Medium

Negative

United StatesPosted Nov 2018 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

After I applied online, a recruiter contacted me a few days later and explained the team’s needs.

I was scheduled for a remote online interview where I logged into their system and walked through short programming exercises. The exercises were straightforward string manipulation problems, but I was very nervous and didn’t perform as well as I wanted. The interviewer didn’t feel fully engaged, and later that day I received a rejection email.

Separately, I also went through a HackerRank-style assessment where the questions felt almost unreal in how easy they were—two coding tasks and a few multiple-choice questions. The time limit was 75 minutes, but I finished in under 15. The issue

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