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Network Engineer

San Jose, CA· Winter 2026

Accepted

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign · Software Engineering

4th year · 3.3-3.6 GPA · 3 past internships

Hard Interview

TechnicalMultiple roundsVirtual

HackerRank had DSA and MCQs on OOPs OS networking, passed that then first technical was trees and BFS then second technical covered Java specifics like functional interfaces and exception handling and never got to HR

Questions Asked

  1. 1.“How does BGP work and when would you configure it?”
  2. 2.“Tell me about a time you had to explain a technical network problem to a non-technical audience.”

Software Engineer

San Jose, CA· Fall 2025

No Offer

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign · Computer Science

3rd year · 2.9-3.2 GPA · 1 past internship

Average Interview

TechnicalMultiple roundsVirtualPoor Communication

Manager seemed distracted and the questions were very generic, not sure what they were looking for. OA was 40 questions, MCQs on CS fundamentals and two DSA problems. Passed. Coding round got a two pointer problem I solved. HR was fine. Got rejected a week later

Questions Asked

  1. 1.“Write a SQL query to find all employees in a department with more than 5 people”
  2. 2.“Tell me about a time you had to learn a new framework or language quickly”

Software Developer

San Jose, CA· Fall 2025

No Offer

Virginia Tech · Computer Engineering

2nd year · 2.5-2.8 GPA · 0 past internships

Hard Interview

TechnicalVirtual

42 question OA with MCQs on networking OOPs OS DBMS plus 2 coding. Spent too long on MCQs and barely had time for coding

Questions Asked

  1. 1.“What is caching? Name three common cache invalidation strategies”
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