I applied through an employee referral. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at F5 in Jan 2022
Interview
When the recruiter first reached out for my availability, I responded in an adequate amount of time with my availability. She didn't email me back until a couple weeks later and asked if I was able to do it the next morning. She totally missed my availability period, but I rearranged my schedule to make it work. I was logged on about 5 minutes before my scheduled time, and she was over 20 minutes late to the interview. Once we finished that interview, I moved on to a meeting with the hiring manager. She was fantastic. It really seemed that she cared about the people she was managing and wanted them to succeed. I felt like she was genuinely interested in my background, and we had a great conversation. After that, I met with 3 additional people for the final stage interview. Two Senior Directors and one VP. The senior directors were great. I had great conversations with both of them. The meeting with the VP is what really raised some red flags for me. She openly bashed her team in the interview. She talked about how they were always complaining and saying that they didn't have enough time to complete their work. I don't really feel like this is something you talk about when trying to get people excited about potentially joining your company/team, and it was very off-putting. However, I was willing to overlook that because I enjoyed talking to the hiring manager and the senior directors. I spent weeks rearranging my schedule to fit in the interviews because they kept going on about how quick they wanted to fill this spot, so I was very flexible working with them despite the fact that I was working 60 hour weeks at the time. Every piece of feedback I received was positive and when I reached out on Thursday, they said I'd hear back by Monday. It's now been a couple weeks, and I've been met with silence after reaching out multiple times. The job has now been reposted. They didn't even send a rejection letter. I can handle getting rejected, but it is very unprofessional to ghost a candidate that has completed the final interview rounds.
Some advice: if you are looking at employment here, just be prepared to be ghosted by your recruiter. Make sure that you are willing for all of your time and effort to not even be met with the bare minimum of an automated rejection email.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Mostly behaviorial questions - Tell me about a time when...
Some questions about your background/specific projects, etc.
Recruiter call, phone screen with the hiring manager, onsite with 5 or so interviews around 45 minutes. Interviewers were manager, skip manager, 2 - 3 peers and one cross department interview.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Mainly asked situational questions to determine thought process. Asked about processes for requirements gathering and specific projects/examples
There were two rounds of interview, both fairly simple. First round was with the HR where I was asked generic questions about my background. Second round was with the hiring manager where I was asked questions based on the job role. I heard back in a week with the result