Juniper Networks Software Engineer interview experience

I sat through multiple rounds with different people, and early on it felt like normal discussion—people were spending real time talking. Then one interviewer abruptly started with basic, almost high-school-level C questions, like pointing out where a semicolon was missing, and even got confused around operator comparison. It caught me off guard because my background was presented as solid C/C++ knowledge.

After that, the questioning drifted into much more specific networking packet topics—MAC addressing in Ethernet packets—and then into very detailed discussion about enhanced router designs