I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at F5
Interview
asinine impersonal lazy
If you've ever had a phone discussion with a recruiter from Google, or Apple, or just about any tech company you're familiar with how they like to find good candidates and match them with teams that fit their skill sets. Recruiters that actually put a little effort into their job.
Don't expect that with F5. F5 recruiters aren't even going to send you and email. They have an assistant who will do that. The assistant will schedule a time for a phone interview and that's about it.
Then you'll have a phone interview where you are expected to write code on an online whiteboard. This is pretty common practice these days, but that isn't what is really going to happen. Your interview is likely to just hang up on you because he doesn't think you could write the code by looking at your resume.
You can assure your interviewer that you read the job description and you have extensive experienced in every major area the job description lists. Give examples, sure, that might help. You can assure them that you you can work with the programming language he mentions. But you should just save your effort and pride and just say "Thank you. Have a nice day." because they couldn't be bothered to let you even attempt the coding exercise you were told to prepare for because they can't fathom how someone with your resume and experience could even begin to use the specific language they like to use.
The recruiter will still not email you.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Do you have experience with network protocol development and implementation?
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at F5 in Apr 2026
Interview
Twice it had happened. F5 hr (first time) or third party consultants (second time) first take ctc and expected ctc over phone, then start scheduling interviews. After successfully clearing 3-4 rounds of discussions, HR will call and ask for expected ctc and try to offer less than our current ctc (not sure how they expect anyone can accept ctc less than their current ctc) and they say it is crossing our range for the role. Firstly they know their range for role and our ctc and expected ctc then why do they waste others time and energy. Second time I clearly told recruiter that schedule the discussions only if they are fine with expected ctc.
Recruit can reply to this review and can tell that my expectation is too high and unrealistic. For those people I had expected 8-10% over my current ctc.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
About my current project and some hackerrank questions which need to execute and show the results
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at F5 (Bengaluru) in Sep 2025
Interview
The first round went fair. I was asked conceptual questions around kubernetes, work wise projects. One leetcode - easy question asked - to sort the values by positive values on even index and negative values on even index keeping the relative order of the array same.
The next round went nowhere. The interviewer didn't switch on the camera. Asked fundamentals about trees, stacks(create stack with queues, create a stack structure with out using stack). I ANSWERED ALL OF THEM BECAUSE THEY ARE SUCH FUNDAMENTALS.
The recruiter then called to share that the panel gave a negative fit because I don't know Golang. I repeatedly asked if there was a language restriction, and there was not even one time they said there was. It is such a bummer.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Sort the values by positive values on even index and negative values on even index keeping the relative order of the array same.
I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at F5
Interview
3 rounds of tech interviews. Fourth round was Hiring Manager followed by HR. The process was well planned and executed.
It started with me getting a call from HR and then attending all the interviews over the weekend
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Lots of questions pertaining to networking concepts