Fortinet Software Engineer interview experience

The first covered programming plus a work assignment-style component and then an architecture interview that leaned on classic LeetCode-style questions. Nothing about the structure felt particularly unusual, and it mostly tracked with standard expectations for the kind of role.

After that, I decided to step away and didn’t continue. I had a better offer elsewhere in the cybersecurity space, so even though the interview content wasn’t a dealbreaker on its own, the opportunity I already had made the decision clear.

I didn’t get an offer from Fortinet, and my reflection was that the process