I applied online. I interviewed at Meraki (South San Francisco, CA) in Jan 2021
Interview
The interview process consisted of 5 rounds, 4 of which were coding interviews. The coding is not leetcode but if their own style. I didn't find any experience during my prep that's why I am writing this review for others.
Had a chat with the recruiter and she explained me about the 1st round. 1st round was initial screening, in which the longest prefix match question was asked. I solved this and moved to virtual onsite.
In virtual onsite there were 4 rounds. 1st was converting a pallette image to rgb fomat. Code in this round needs to be written in C. In 2nd round they gave a long piece of code asked to implement 2 functions in C++. 3rd round system design (HLD and psuedo code).
I solved all the questions in all 3 rounds(took some help in 1st round, since I haven't done coding in C and never read an image byte by byte). The recruiter told me initially that I will not be asked questions related to networking but In the final round HM started shooting questions on networking. I was able to answer few of them and then the HM behaviour told me the result there itself.
If networking was this important they should have screened in the 1st round itself and not wasted my entire day with virtual onsite.
Definitely not applying to this company again.
The only positive thing was my experience with the recruiter.
WASTE OF TIME!!
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
no leetcode questions. recruiter will guide you on what kind of questions will be asked, so nothing much can be prepared in advance
1st interview with recruiter so far, so it’s just getting a feel for whether my job history matches requirements. They aske experience with which dev platforms, I’m waiting to hear back
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Typical questions for 1st interview, what experience do you have with x, y per role description
Interview process was typical but the position was "closed" right before my last interview and they told me the day I was supposed to have that interview. So I ended up taking the day off for nothing.
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Question 1
Leetcode type questions that you could code in any language
After a phone screening, I had a technical interview with 2 engineers, both very nice people. They asked me about some of my work, asked me to explain some networking fundamentals, and then a straightforward coding question. It was a very good interview, I simply went in unprepared and dropped the ball. Know the basics of networking interviews inside and out and you should be able to sail through the first interview. There would've been 1 or 2 more interviews after (I got the gist that those would've been more demanding but cannot say for sure).
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Question 1
They asked about networking protocols related to IP and LAN's