I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Cisco (Remote, OR) in Jul 2014
Interview
The whole interview touk about 4h with four different people sequently ( 1h with every one) , mixed tech , HR & management questions. Overally very impressive. Most of people you will work with later whn they hire you.
it was 3 tec round. and 1 manager round.
all questions were related to the scenario bases on networking.
topics: VPN/ Proxy/ Firewall/ and basic networking
manager round was very easy
Registered via Cisco ideathon. Three rounds of interview.
Technical, managerial, HR rounds.
All questions were easy to medium technical round had lot of questions and 2 DSA questions.
Managerial was about few situational questions.
Interview with direct manager and few other senior engineers from the team. Engineers focused on technical side about various OSI layers. Manager's questions were more behavioural about managing difficult situations and coming up with new ideas.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Scenario based questions as well as troubleshooting problems. Was given a scenario where traffic could reach from one host to another hosts which are connected via a series of switches and routers. Was asked to walk through how I would troubleshoot the given problem.