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Software Engineer Interview Experience - Sunnyvale, California

July 1, 2019
Negative ExperienceGot Offer

Process

In-person interview, many rounds.

The first two individuals were reasonable, and we talked for 45 minutes with each.

The third individual began to ask all sorts of beginner C questions, like "where the semicolon is missing"? (She showed me a printf statement without a semicolon), and confused '<' with '<='.

It's really strange to ask such high school-level questions to a person who says that he knows C/C++ 10 out of 10.

Then she proceeded to ask various questions about MAC addresses in ethernet packets. I happened to know this, even though this wasn't mentioned on my resume.

Then she proceeded to ask some very elaborate and specific questions about some enhanced router designs with multiple ethernet ports and NAT translation. I couldn't understand what she was asking at all, since this must be related to some specific equipment that they have.

Then she proceeded to ask a question about how to design an elevator.

At this point, I didn't feel like explaining to her the linear optimization program that could solve the elevator algorithm problem, and I interrupted this interview and left.

The questions were all over the place, mostly either beginner questions or irrelevant questions about some specific equipment that I've never had a chance to have experience with and didn't mention on my resume.

It seemed very dumb and meaningless.

The interview didn't make any sense, was all over the place, and I interrupted it myself. I didn't feel like I wanted to be there.

Most employees are from the countries that send a lot of H1B workers. I think that Juniper interviewed me as a way to prove that they can't find any qualified candidates in order to bring more H1Bs.

Otherwise, it's very hard to logically explain such an interview.

Questions

How can a router with multiple LAN Ethernet cards perform NAT with multiple WAN IP addresses?

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 24 interview experiences for the Juniper Networks Software Engineer role in Sunnyvale, California.

Success Rate

63%
Pass Rate

Juniper Networks's interview process for their Software Engineer roles in Sunnyvale, California is on the easier side as most engineers get an offer after going through it.

Experience Rating

Positive71%
Neutral25%
Negative4%

Candidates reported having very good feelings for Juniper Networks's Software Engineer interview process in Sunnyvale, California.