I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Meraki (London, England) in Feb 2015
Interview
Applied through the recruiter and received a call to set up a day for phone interview.
- The phone interview was not hard at all. The interviewer asked me about the following: DNS, DHCP, Firewall (Stateless and state full), ACL, IPSEC, VPNS, wireless and wireshark.
- After two days I received a call from the recruiter that I have passed my first round and they would like to meet me.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
- Went to their office in London, it looks very nice but I think the space is somehow not that big.
- There was lots of questions related to packet flow in network, make sure you understand the packet flow and ICMP works. There were also questions about VLANS, STP, Trunking, 802.1q using white boards. This process took about an hour.
- Then I had another hour with one of the manager which was more like to know my personality.
I do not mind doing extensive technical interviews including scenarios. Using the cisco lab tool to simulate network issues was fine. What i do not like is being bullied on an interview. The interviewer was too pushy, and I got the impression he was there aiming to proof me wrong. He was enjoying it.
If he let me explained my angle we would arrive to the same conclusion.
Waste of time, and energy.
Please train better the interviewers
Long and intense. Unfortunately, the person conducting my last technical interview was new to the team (a senior colleague was shadowing him). He did not behave professionally. The senior colleague apologizes at some point in the interview for the attitude of his peer.
I declined to forward in the hiring process, once they invited me to meet them at their office (last step in the hiring process).
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
CCNA questions
Cisco Lab with specific scenarios aiming to provide good understanding on L2/L3 and troubleshooting skills
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Meraki (San Jose, CA) in Jun 2021
Interview
I got a call from a recruiter for 10'. He asked me about my experience. He call me the next day to set up a technical interview with the Supervisor. The interview took 1h. It was based on troubleshooting scenarios. I got an offer one week after the interview.
