The hiring process at Fortinet takes an average of 60 days when considering 2 user submitted interviews across all job titles. Candidates applying for Country Manager had the quickest hiring process (on average 30 days), whereas Regional Account Manager roles had the slowest hiring process (on average 90 days).
I applied online. I interviewed at Fortinet (Burnaby, BC) in Nov 2022
Interview
There were three rounds first was HR round and 2 were technical rounds 20 minutes and 1 hour respectively. They all were conducted via phone or video call. They all were friendly
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Question 1
Most aaked about my previous experience and networking like tcp upd osi dhcp types of testing how dns work how email is TX
Interview process was straight forward . At first , I got a call from the team manager . We had a discussion on what the role entails . Followed by that , we had a technical discussion. The questions were mostly relates to my background and experience and around presales process etc. The last round was a presentation round where they asked me to prep a client preso around cyber security solution.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
One of interviewers asked me if I am familiar with OT .
Two rounds of technical. Both rounds are on fundamental concepts such as TLS, encoding, hashing, encryption, injection, cross site scripting. Second round is more deep dive into each topic. There may or may not be a VP round
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Question 1
What are the differences between encoding, hashing, and encryption? How does the TLS handshake work? What is injection and how to prevent it? What is cross site scripting and how to prevent it?