First there was an online test. it consisted of 25 mcqs and 1 coding test. Mcqs included questions from networking, aptitude, dbms, operating systems. The coding question was of medium level on strings.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Cisco (London, England) in Jan 2021
Interview
the interview process is quite lenghty. first you will be interviewed by two technical engineers. followed by you hiring manager. the other two are from acocunt management and sales. the very difficult be prepared
I applied through other source. I interviewed at Cisco in Oct 2020
Interview
So , basically it was an off-campus placement .Cisco conducts this ideathon where many college students can take part . There were 7 rounds in total . First round was a written test consisting of technical MCQs ,majorly based on networking . In second round, we were given a problem statement for which we had to create a video suggesting an innovative solution for the same . Third round was a written test consisting of behavioral questions. Fourth one again was a written technical based test. The last 3 rounds were interview rounds . First interview round was technical interview where I was mostly asked networking related questions and few os related too. Then I had my managerial round where the interviewer asked me situation based questions and behavioral questions. Last one was HR round where I was asked just one or two questions related to my project mentioned in my resume and then i was briefed about my salary details.
Overall , the whole process was very smooth and the interviewers were really kind. After few weeks , i got my results and boom! I got selected .
I think apart from technical knowledge , communication skills also play a huge role in getting selected and impressing the panel.