Glassdoor users rated their interview experience at Packet Design as 50% positive with a difficulty rating score of 3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty). Candidates interviewing for QA Manager and Senior Software Engineer rated their interviews as the hardest, whereas interviews for QA Manager and Senior Software Engineer roles were rated as the easiest.
The hiring process at Packet Design takes an average of 21 days when considering 2 user submitted interviews across all job titles. Candidates applying for Senior Software Engineer had the quickest hiring process (on average 21 days), whereas Senior Software Engineer roles had the slowest hiring process (on average 21 days).
The process was smooth, I visited the office as per schedule. There were 3 different rounds. One was focused on networking, other one on selenium and last one was a general discussion
I applied online. The process took 5 weeks. I interviewed at Packet Design in Apr 2016
Interview
First I had a online written round having 3 different sections related to Data Structures, Linux/Unix and C/C++. 10 questions in each section this needs to be finished in 30 mins.
If round is qualified and second round was coding round they gave me one question on C++ which I had to correct and write a function and submit in max 2 hrs.
After this round I had Skype round in which they based basic data structure questions from Linked list and Trees. This round went for almost 2 hrs.
I cleared this round also then I had face to face interview at their Pune office. This F2F interview went for 4 hrs.
The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Packet Design (Palo Alto, CA)
Interview
Its a rigorous interview with multiple rounds (only technical).
I had 6 rounds where almost all of their senior guys asked datastructure/puzzle questions. Since they are into networking, most of the questions were graph related
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
mainly tree, graph and sorting questions from data structures, puzzles like water filling in bucket, C++ inheritance, linux commands