I contacted Meraki at online virtual career fair. After a short chat interview with representative, I was given a contact information of technical support recruiter and was asked to submit a resume via email. After submitting a resume, I was scheduled for technical interviews via Skype with two of NSEs at Meraki. Two technical interviews were an hour each and it was back to back interviews.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Critically thinking, how would you stop layer 2 CAM table overflow attack?
Describe and explain about STP and RSTP,
Describe and explain about the differences between STP and RSTP.
Describe and explain about HSRP, VRRP, or GLLP in detail.
Describe and explain about DHCP and how it works in detail
Describe and explain how TCP/IP establish connection between a server and a host in detail
If you execute a ping command from your host computer to a server in a different subnet, describe in detail of what is going to happen.
Describe and explain OSI layer model
How does internet work? describe every process from layer 2 through layer 4 including a return traffic.
I applied through college or university. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Meraki (San Francisco, CA) in Oct 2013
Interview
The screening interview was held at my grad school career fair. After that I was called on site (within two weeks) and 5 more interviews were held. The company arranged for transport and stay. The interviewers were quite friendly and the interviews were more of a discussion. I was offered the position at the end of the five interviews.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
a detailed troubleshooting scenario for VPN was asked. a site-to-site VPN, user from one site cannot get to a resource on another site.