I applied through college or university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Cisco in Dec 2011
Interview
Talked a little about myself and current projects.
He then asked me to code up factorial. I did it recursively, he then asked me to do it iteratively.
I coded it up perfect, and he said that was all the coding i needed to do.
Not sure why they didnt ask me harder questions, especially since i did it perfectly and didnt get an offer. I was one of the first interviews of the day, so i think he may have under estimated the level or interviews he was giving or something.
They care about your skills, rather than your background. They have a template which they provide and you got to fill that, everyone is provided a unique number. You are instructed not to disclose any of your personal details in the due course of your interview.
The interview process was two rounds. The first round was a behavioral interview. Straightforward questions, like tell me about the most technically challenging project you have worked on. The second round was a system design interview.
3 technical rounds of 35-45 mins each for a 5 years experience JS fullstack.
1. Project currently working on + design patterns employed and resume based questions in details to check the depth.
2. System design interview - asked me to mention an approach to design a microservice for retail client. Followed up by questions on why I've chosen a particular tech stack and questions on how to tackle certain situations in real word on such services (inventory + payments etc).
3. DS based test - question was bit easy.