I applied online. The process took 3 months. I interviewed at Fortinet (Vancouver, BC) in Jan 2021
Interview
Probably one of the most unprofessional interview experiences I have ever had the displeasure of participating in. I first applied to the position of Embedded Systems Engineer, and was sent an online assessment (hackerrank) a few months later. I passed this and was then called randomly out of the blue without prior warning. However, I was not able to answer the phone at the time, and asked if the interviewer could call back, he said yes, but never did. I emailed the recruiters multiples times for follow up but received no response. Then a few weeks later, the recruiter finally calls me again and tells me that I passed the OA and could move onto the next step. Turns out, the next step was another OA for a different position (software developer) and was the same format as the first one. Let's see, that's already 2 hours wasted from doing these OAs. I passed this one again and was finally scheduled to do a final interview. This final interview was probably the worst final interview anyone could have. There were 3 interviews, only the first one could speak English. The next two could only speak Mandarin. You would think that an interview conducted for a job opening in Canada would be in English or French? Nope. This is very unprofessional and a huge waste of time. All in all, I wasted over 5+ hours in total from application, to redundant OAs, to 3 hours of virtual interviews being conducted in a very unprofessional manner. All this to receive a quick, you were not selected. Please, save your time and DO NOT apply to the Vancouver position. It is a waste of time if you don't know Mandarin.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What is concurrency? Explain TCP/IP. Some really easy leetcode question.
10 MC, 4 coding. Haven't reached the next stage yet. But coding was in C and was okay just leetcode easy for first 2 and leetcode medium for the last 2.
I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Fortinet (Vancouver, BC) in Feb 2026
Interview
Horrible experience, especially with recruiting but also the attitude of the hiring team. Recruiters love to cold call with no heads up (only out of hundreds of companies who use standard emails) and are very disorganized, forgetting details about me and saying nothing about the team or company.
Process:
- 2.5 hour OA with complete silence for 1.5 months after
- 2 hour in person onsite interview. The interviewers had a cold attitude and look throughout. Didn't bother to introduce themselves or the team. Didn't even say goodbye or thank me for my time after the interview despite me taking PTO.
- 3 weeks later, recruiter called to setup a call with another manager. This manager asked random questions and didn't explain his role or give me any time to ask questions. Overall easy conversation.
Complete ghosting from the company after the final call despite me following up twice. I only found out through internal sources that the position was filled.
Be aware of this company. Heavily favour onsite work and a certain demographic. Be prepared to job hop after a year even if you get a offer.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Technical trivia + leetcode. They learned a lot about me but I barely knew what they did.
I applied online. I interviewed at Fortinet in Jan 2026
Interview
i had two 3 hour interviews. 2 hours of technical and 1 hour of behavioural/meeting, each time with two people. the interview was in C, and there were multiple questions but fairly easy.