I applied through university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Meraki (San Francisco, CA) in Oct 2017
Interview
Had a phone interview with one of the engineers. It was a terrible experience. His line kept going off, and I coudn't hear him half the time. The interview started with the interviewer very briefly explaining the company, and then we directly proceeded to the algo question without any questions about my resume (since they were "short on time"). The question was immensely unclear and quite hard, and was just thrown to me. Moreover, the bad line on his side did not help. I tried clearing up the question with the interviewer, but that did not help as he did not really clear it up, rather made it more confusing. Also, his low level of enthusiasm did not give me a good impression about the company.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Given an array of routers, where each router is represented as an array of pairs (timestamp, state), write a program to display the "state" of the system of routers, where the state had some convoluted definition.
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Meraki (San Francisco, CA) in Apr 2023
Interview
The interview process consisted of 1 OA and 3 interviews. Wasn’t too hard and the interviewers/recruiter were really nice. The interviewers made sure to make it feel like a conversation and not an interrogation.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Finish a coding task with some code filled out already
I applied online. The process took 3 months. I interviewed at Meraki in Sept 2021
Interview
The process took about 2.5 months (applied in early August, got the offer in early October).
First, I got a coding assessment with easy~medium Leetcode style questions. Then, I was sent a written screen to fill out in lieu of virtual screening. After that, I moved on to the first technical interview, conducted over CoderPad. This involved pair-programming to problem-solve a non Leetcode style question with multiple parts that built upon each other. The final round was similar to the previous round, though it wasn't pair-programming and it was a multi-part Leetcode medium question.
Overall, the interviewers and recruiter(s) were super friendly and helpful. I learned a lot about the company and the work they do.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Implement the T9 predictive text algorithm and system.
Two one hour rounds over the phone. First round was just basic networking questions, second round was a coding round on coderpad. Had choice of using Python or Ruby.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
3 small coding questions in the second round. Pretty straightforward