I got a phone call in November from Comcast HR stating that they wanted to schedule a bunch of interviews with me with various teams in the Philadelphia office. I readily agreed and was scheduled for my first set of on-site interviews in late November.

I interviewed with four different teams:

• Two were in search of a Software Engineer.
• One was interested in a purely Networking profile.
• The last one was looking for an individual with both programming and networking skills.

After a few days, I got another call from Comcast HR. One of the teams (which I later discovered was the programming and networking skills one) wanted to schedule another on-site interview with me, this time in Mt. Laurel, New Jersey.

I had my final on-site interview at the end of December and received the result by the first week of January.

They were specifically looking for some experience with scripting languages like Python. They asked me to write a couple of programs.

One of them was related to parsing large log files and recognizing patterns (with the use of regular expressions).

Then there were the standard whiteboard questions pertaining a random network topology, to walk them through the process of message transfer through the bottom three layers.