I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Fortinet (Burnaby, BC) in Feb 2017
Interview
Gave my resume to the booth at my school's career fair. The guy was arrogant, but it helped land me an interview with the team.
Started off with a phone screen. Not difficult, just to verify that I'm human.
Next was the take home assessment. I was given 48 hours to work on it before I had to submit it. I was actually given two take home assessments for two different roles. I did both of them.
Next was the onsite interview. I showed up and they handed me an exam that I had to write for an hour and a half. They were similar to the aptitude test given by Amazon. Following that exam, they handed me another exam that focused on networking fundamentals, for which I had 45 minutes to complete. Following that, was the actual interview with a panel.
I had no idea which team I was actually interviewing for. The HR lady told me "Software Developer" but when I got to the interview there were three people representing three teams: QA, Analytics, and Tools. The technical questions were really easy.
Following this was an interview with the VP. It wasn't difficult, just asked me questions about my resume.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What's the most amount of slices you can get from slicing a circular cake 4 times
10 MC, 4 coding. Haven't reached the next stage yet. But coding was in C and was okay just leetcode easy for first 2 and leetcode medium for the last 2.
I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Fortinet (Vancouver, BC) in Feb 2026
Interview
Horrible experience, especially with recruiting but also the attitude of the hiring team. Recruiters love to cold call with no heads up (only out of hundreds of companies who use standard emails) and are very disorganized, forgetting details about me and saying nothing about the team or company.
Process:
- 2.5 hour OA with complete silence for 1.5 months after
- 2 hour in person onsite interview. The interviewers had a cold attitude and look throughout. Didn't bother to introduce themselves or the team. Didn't even say goodbye or thank me for my time after the interview despite me taking PTO.
- 3 weeks later, recruiter called to setup a call with another manager. This manager asked random questions and didn't explain his role or give me any time to ask questions. Overall easy conversation.
Complete ghosting from the company after the final call despite me following up twice. I only found out through internal sources that the position was filled.
Be aware of this company. Heavily favour onsite work and a certain demographic. Be prepared to job hop after a year even if you get a offer.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Technical trivia + leetcode. They learned a lot about me but I barely knew what they did.
I applied online. I interviewed at Fortinet in Jan 2026
Interview
i had two 3 hour interviews. 2 hours of technical and 1 hour of behavioural/meeting, each time with two people. the interview was in C, and there were multiple questions but fairly easy.
