The interview was fairly standard, an initial Skype session with a remote manager to check eligibility and suitability. After that a face to face interview in the office. Finally a call with the chief as apparently he likes to speak to all new employees before they join. The initial skype call wasn’t technical, the network engineering manager wanted to get an overview of my background to see if I am the write fit for the company. The onsite interview was much more technical although fairly standard stuff relating to networking, BGP, TCP/IP etc. During the onsite interview everyone I met was very friendly and the office had a nice atmosphere. I didn’t make it to the final call with the chief, I declined. The process took 2 to 3 months from initial contact to getting an email saying “the chief want’s a call, what time suites you” as apparently he likes to speak with all new employees before they get the final sign off. However in that correspondence I was also informed that CF weren’t actually hiring for any network engineers at present and this was all to give me a job in 6 months’ time. Up until this point I had been lead to believe there as a position presently open and I was looking to leave my existing employer ASAP. I had to send many chaser emails, they were often slow to respond. I had to use a day’s annual leave and spend money to travel to the CF office for the interview, and there wasn’t even a job available. I felt very let down especially with the speed of their responses. They were quite disorganised and the company felt a bit immature, as an example; I asked about working from home one day a week like on a Wednesday to break up the commute (it would be about 1.5 hours for me) – they said they had no work from home policy. I find this very silly for a cutting edge technology firm.

One of the most thorough interviews for a great company. There was a practical portion which was very interesting and seemed to really test ones skills and how they think through problems.