I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Cato Networks (Tel Aviv-Yafo) in Nov 2025
Interview
At first they asked a little about me, and pretty quickly we moved on to presenting a project I had done.
I started presenting a project in Java, with a class diagram, and already in the first diagram I had they asked me about an algorithm I presented there.
They asked me to go into the actual code, and asked me how I would implement the algorithm better.
After we got to how it should be, they told me to start implementing it in code and write what was needed.
After a while we moved on to the leetcode question.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Given two strings text and pattern, return the index of the first occurrence of pattern in text, or -1 if pattern is not part of text.
class Solution {
public:
int strStr(string haystack, string needle) {
}
};
I applied through a staffing agency. I interviewed at Cato Networks in May 2026
Interview
Very disappointed. Ghosted me after the first interview, even after me trying to reach out for an update. A company that ghost applicants tells you a lot about the company's culture.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Average leetcode questions. I'll say medium (difficulty)
2 remote interviews - first with HR explaining my experience and knowledge. second: technical questions - got asked about common algorithms and data structures, technical questions - got asked about common algorithms and data structures,
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
technical questions - got asked about common algorithms and data structures, given different scenarios need to choose one of each and explain why one is better than other. was expected to mostly use cloud (eg AWS) tools
