Software Designer applicants have rated the interview process at Ciena with 3 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 Designer roles take an average of 21 days to get hired, when considering 1 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 Designer according to 1 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 100%
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I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Ciena (Ottawa, ON) in Jun 2016
Interview
Interview involved one phone screening with HR, one phone screening with Hiring Manager and one technical interview with HM. Some behavioural questions were also asked during the interview.
Interview process took around 3 weeks. I received a call from HR after a week of applying online. Phone screen interview was set up within the same week. Second round was phone screening with hiring manager and another technical interview.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
General questions on data structures and algorithms (sorting algorithms). Couple questions about multi-threaded programming. I was asked to implement merge sort in C and compare it to other sorting algorithms.