Software Engineer - Intern applicants have rated the interview process at Ciena with 1.7 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 100% positive. To compare, the company-average is 71.9% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Engineer - Intern roles take an average of 7 days to get hired, when considering 3 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Ciena overall takes an average of 24 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Ciena as a Software Engineer - Intern according to 3 Glassdoor interviews include:
One on one interview: 100%
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technical and behavioural interview combined in one interview, about Python and C basic concepts such as pointers. they asked about a lot of syntax and to write out basic code with correct syntax
Recruiter phone call not much more to it coding was pretty straightforward they might throw a riddle to confuse you but has no weight really. For coding if you can solve basic dsa questions you'll be perfect.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Ciena (Ottawa, ON) in Apr 2022
Interview
I asked me a lot of behavioral questions and no technical ones. However it was a beginner position, basically entry-level and the only "technical" question they asked was regarding AWS.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What do you know regarding AWS? Have you any experience with it?