Unique, challenging and thorough, not like any interview experience I have had. It was fairly relaxed atmosphere, certainly not a “corporate” interview . I felt like the process was intended to test multiple aspects of employment. It was as if you were tested for not just technical abilities but in social as well. The “interview” was conducted over an entire day. Food and snacks are provided. Spoke with team members, leadership, and Human Resources.

Recruiter reached out through LinkedIn. Recruiter asked basic technical questions about DHCP, VLAN, DORA process. STP. Following this was technical interview over webex video This was purely situational based to check on networking knowledge. Network diagram was made on the board with router on stick config and fw after the router and internet. Question were then to troubleshoot from client that can not access internet. Answer: Check DHCP; client has APIPA(169.x.x.x) Ask where DHCP is co figured. Check dhcp scope and range config Client switchport and dhcp server in different subnet. Check router config and see if Vlans are configured. Check if vlan has routing enabled. Check if sub-interface is configured with dot1q enabled to make sure vlans can talk to each other Check if the interface has relay agent configured. Now client has IP address but no internet Check routing information between router, firewall and internet. Static routes were missing on both router and firewall for default gateway. Return routes were missing for both vlans This was an hour interview but was able to figure out all the issues in 45 Mins Interviewer has no more questions. Next round: Home activity to login to meraki dashboard and complete exercise. You get 2 days to complete. This was simple task but my mistake was to confirm with recruiter the intention of this task and recruiter sent me wrong questioner first time and then sent me correct one. You were supposed to create SSID and configure with wpa2 shared key and bonus point to download the audit logs. You are asked to document positive negative experience? What positive, negative experience can you get from this? When you ask to configure something, you simple configure it, what’s there to document? My assumption was that they wanted us to figured where the configuration was so I took the screenshots and audit logs and submitted. 2 days later I got rejection template email. This was big surprise to me as I had completed everything they asked for. Recruiter was very prompt responding back as long I was considered for interview. Minute they sent rejection email, recruiter stopped responding. Not responding to candidate after the interview was very negative experience in my case. Silicon Valley is really small and you circle back to candidates very often, this was my 3rd time someone from Meraki reached out to me. 1st time- I rejected their offer as it was less comp than my current salary 2nd time- I asked recruiter upfront but I was making higher than their position range so recruiter was upfront which is good. 3rd time- recruiter mentioned my current comp is here but they will make exception for right candidate. Suggestion to recruiter: maybe sometime candidate doesn’t understand the importance of exercise. It’s your responsibility to explain candidate why is this activity needed. Communication is very important, even if you’re not going to hire the candidate. Good luck!