Ho presentato la mia candidatura online. La procedura ha richiesto 2 mesi. Ho sostenuto un colloquio presso Fortinet (Plano, TX) nel mese di ago 2019
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I won't say much as most had been covered by previous candidates.
The only thing that I liked the most was the in-person technical interview, no bs questions like "where do you see yourself in x years type questions", a good 3 hours of routing and switching questions and a little bit of security and firewall. If you have a strong foundation of CCNA R/S and Security topics, you will nail this interview.
What would have made me decline their offer is not the salary entirely, but their hiring process and possibly how the TAC managers treat their teams here in the Americas (read other reviews). They were some red flags early in the process, the hiring managers there in Plano have worst to zero communication skills, you will need to send 2-3 emails before they can respond to you. It took them weeks to make their decision after all interviews and stuff. (Looks like a good number of folks had the same experience)
This had to be the worst hiring process I have ever experienced in my career. If you can't show respect to your soon to become team members, no one will want to work for you period - you are leaving a negative impression of your hiring practices. However, kudos to the guy who conducted the technical interview.
What need to be done: someone in the upper HR will need to review this hiring process before things go out of hand. We were really surprised by the hiring process of a big company like Fortinet.
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Just make sure you mastered your core route/switch topics.
No need to memorize questions if you don't understand well the technologies because you will get busted pretty quickly.
Ho presentato la mia candidatura online. La procedura ha richiesto 3 mesi. Ho sostenuto un colloquio presso Fortinet nel mese di nov 2025
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I spent more than 20+ hours on 5+ interviews, including a 5 hour take home test and going to their office for 3 consecutive interviews. Then I waited 1.5 months for a rejection without explanation. No respect for our time.
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Specific questions about processes that should be written down.
Ho sostenuto un colloquio presso Fortinet (Londra, Inghilterra)
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Great interview experience! The focus was on networking fundamentals like LAN, OSPF, TCP/IP, and the OSI model. The questions were technical but fair, testing both theoretical knowledge and practical application. A great way to assess networking expertise.
Ho presentato la mia candidatura online. La procedura ha richiesto 3 settimane. Ho sostenuto un colloquio presso Fortinet (Ottawa, ON) nel mese di dic 2024
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I had interview for the “Technical support Engineer” at Fortinet on Dec 6th 2024.
After first questions, "what is the 7 OSI layers and the sample protocol for each layer", the interviewer told me show him my keyboard, because he felt, I am looking too much bottom of the screen.
then he asked me to share my screen. and he said that I am using chatgpt for cheating. That chatgpt question was VRF leaking related to my task for my current job.
I have more that 15 years experience as a network engineer and consultant. I spent time to pass NSE4 certificate for this role requirement and planned to relocate to Ottawa. the interviewer stop interview easily. The interviewer didn't even turn his webcam.