I applied through a recruiter. The process took 5 weeks. I interviewed at Meraki (Chicago, IL)
Interview
Terrible process and decision making in the end. Once you get to final 4 four round, you will meet with 4 people, half of them inexperienced with interviews. One person staring at computer typing his answers to give their feedback internally, who is a Director. Some do not understand channel business. Communication lacks as they even said "sorry for delay we are squeezing another candidate". Delay another week, still waiting, delayed still another couple days hoping to nail decision. Ended with we are working with competitor candidate and Cisco candidate. Comes down to product knowledge, then why did you move or waste candidate time? They should know more of their hiring direction IMO, go after what you want. Positive side is product is awesome and young.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
They tell you all the questions ahead of time, nothing should be a shocker. Just put your best foot forward.
I applied online. I interviewed at Meraki (Sydney)
Interview
The phone interview was scheduled with previous few emails between Cisco Meraki and myself.
After five minute of scheduled time, I got a call and it started with few questions.
Firstly, I was asked why I applied for the job, what I know about the role and few technical questions
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Meraki (San Francisco, CA) in Mar 2019
Interview
How disorganized are these people?!
Immediately after the recruiter interview, he asks for my availability for a phone interview with a manager. I send him back an email right away and hear nothing for 3 days. All of the sudden, after all of my available times passed, I get a call from the eng manager. Luckily, I was available.
1 week goes by and I hear nothing, assuming I failed to proceed, but I sent the recruiter and email anyway just to check. Another week, and he randomly calls me saying they want to schedule an onsite... fine, I still want the job
Onsite was 5x45min interviews (engineer, product manager, 2 directors, 1 vp) + lunch. Huge red flag - I asked every single person who the hiring manager was for this position and I got 5 different answers! Even the recruiter didn't know! At the end, recruiter tells me the first 3 people gave great feedback and went through everything with me. Probably the best thing he did. Told me I would hear back 2 days later
4 days later I hadn't heard anything, so sent him another email. 1 day later, canned rejection via email.
Really?!
Good thing I'm not going to be an engineering manager there, how would I ever be able to hire engineers if the recruiting team doesn't even know who the req is for?!
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Tell me about a time you showed empathy for an employee