I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Riverbed Technology (Bengaluru) in Aug 2022
Interview
The interview started with a recruiter reaching out and asking about the current and expected salary. Then an interview round was scheduled.
Round1 - The interview time was supposed to be 1 hour. The interview seemed utterly inexperienced about interviewing. He did not understand how to phrase a question properly. The first question was a generic scenario about traffic dropping on a LAN network. I tried to answer by peeling layers of the TCP/IP model and soon understood that the interviewer was not tat familiar with all the layers in the stack. He kept mumbling something without giving any direction. In fact he initially claimed that the routing from point A to point B has no problems but later claimed that the IPsec was broken. I am not sure how can two endpoints route traffic if their security mechanism is broken.
The second question was a coding question. A simple question that the interviewer unnessasarily complicated. I asked a few questions to clarify what he wanted but it looked like he no experience in asking coding problems. He said that I should not ask questions and simply code lo. Anyway, i did code a brute force solution and then wanted to move to a more efficient solution but he stopped me and said he was satisfied. I am sure he knew nothing about deeper coding concepts.
The call lasted an hour, I was disappointed with who the interviewer was but I expected them to schedule another round. The HR never reached out even though she said she would .
Summary- Very poor interview style and inexperienced interviewer. Feedbacks are not detailed at all. Needs a ton of improvement.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1. Given an array of numbers and a sum, return all the pairs that equal to the given sum.
Simple question but no feedback by interviewer on if the numbers are unique, if the sum can be negative, if all the pairs need to be returned as unique e.g if both (2, 1) and (1, 2) need to be returned or only (1, 2).
The interview process was extremely relaxed and casual. Was introduced to a number of key team members who were open about their working environment and provided a comfort environment prior to the start of the interview process
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How would you approach a customer challenge and how would you assist in getting closure?
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Riverbed Technology (Bengaluru) in Jul 2022
Interview
Very bad experience. The HR wasn't aware of the roles and responsibilities and skills needed for the role. Whatever questions were asked didn't even come near to my area of expertise. The interview was totally different from the job description sent to me.