The process took 1 day. I interviewed at F5 (Seattle, WA) in May 2010
Interview
I met with the manager to talk about the position. I had done this job previously and was well familiar with it.
Then I was interviewed for 2 hours by two very senior engineers.
I was drilled on my network protocol knowledge, programming skills and systems administration knowledge.
It was a 4.5 hours interview for this role, including technical (tcp/ip, udp, dns, http, https), soft skills, escalation skills and troubleshooting skills. A scenario was given to evaluate your over-all skill set.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
tcp/ip, udp, dns, http, ssl,
how to troubleshoot a slow network
I applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at F5
Interview
Got a Call from the HR for phone screening.asked about basic linux commands and networking commands. the differences and where we apply them. The call was from UK and the interviewer was very precise on the questions.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
command to check routing table in linux
command to check disk space in linux
command to list running processes in linux
example of linux file system
difference between /var/log/syslog and /var/log/messages
what is http header
.what is ping? what is the difference between ping and traceroute.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at F5 (London, England) in Sep 2015
Interview
2 sessions of tech interview, in each one there were 2 interviewers.
1 session with managers, 2 managers.
First one was network related general questions with 2 engineers. You can prepare for this by reviewing OSI reference model and TCP/IP
The 2nd session was diverse questions about computing system, mostly based on linux system.
If you get manager session, you are selected already and it is just a session of seeing your future manager.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Network related questions, from layer 2 ~ 7.
Linux related questions.
