Seagate·Software Engineer

Seagate Software Engineer interview experience

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Kerala EstatePosted Feb 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My interview was about an hour and stayed tightly focused on the materials we already had—my CV and the job description.

We started with me describing myself and then moving into a mix of role-relevant fundamentals and protocol questions.

I was asked about SIP protocol and then followed by routing and switching basics. The conversation also included questions that were more step-by-step and practical, like the IP phone boot-up process and my explanation of how it works. Toward the end, they asked about HTTP and the “umbrella” protocol.

It felt like a moderate technical screen that tested whether I had real familiarity with the building blocks, not just high-level buzzwords. I didn’t get an offer, but it was

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