Technical applicants have rated the interview process at F5 with 3.3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 75% positive. To compare, the company-average is 58.3% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Technical roles take an average of 20 days to get hired, when considering 4 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at F5 overall takes an average of 22 days.
Common stages of the interview process at F5 as a Technical according to 4 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 43%
One on one interview: 14%
Skills test: 14%
Other: 14%
Presentation: 14%
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I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at F5 in Jan 2016
Interview
I got an email asking me to do an online coding challenge, then they would email me back after taking a look at the results.
Couple of days later got an email asking for an on-site interview. Interview was with 4 people, about 45 minutes each one-on-one. Each of them asked their own set of questions depending on their specialty.
Everyone I met was extremely nice and smart. Would have loved to worked with them.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How does a CPU talk to a printer in assembly language?
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at F5 (San Jose, CA) in Oct 2017
Interview
The interview process comprise of 4 rounds which consist of 1st challenge test, which has several MCQ, and 3 problems of programming. 2nd round consist of programming assignment to be completed in 2 days which was pretty difficult. Later 3rd round comprised of onsite challenge which was based on javascript and finally the last round was onsite interview.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at F5 in Mar 2017
Interview
I got employee referral by networking in February and had two rounds of phone/video interviews in early March. The interview was less focused on algorithm/data structure questions than other technical interviews. They asked about my past experience and resume during the interview, and not much about writing code for algorithm questions. Two weeks later the HR called me to offer the position.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
I can't tell the detail of the question but it's really easy, about string and hashmap.