went through the full thing last month for a senior software engineer role on their network automation team. figured i'd write it up since there is not much out there that is recent.
the loop was 5 rounds: recruiter screen (30 min, standard comp + resume stuff) technical phone screen with hiring manager (45 min, system design light, more conversation than whiteboard) coding round (1 hr, two leetcode-mediums, no hard. one was a graph problem, one was string manipulation. coderpad environment) system design (1 hr, i got designing a monitoring system for a distributed network. very on-brand for verizon.) behavioral / cross-functional panel (1 hr, two interviewers, all STAR-format questions)
the behavioral panel was the one that caught me off guard a little. they really wanted examples of working with non-technical partners and navigating when your technical recommendation got pushback from a business stakeholder. i had stories but i had to dig for them. prep those specifically.
the system design round went well because i leaned into reliability and fault tolerance, which is obviously what they care about. if your design answers start with "so this would need to handle regional failures..." they perk up.
coding was pretty standard. nothing wild. they are not trying to trick you.
timeline: recruiter reached out on a Tuesday, offer letter 4.5 weeks later. no ghosting, which was nice.