I applied online. The process took 3 days. I interviewed at Cisco (Bengaluru) in Jan 2010
Interview
I applied for the job online. Got a call from the hiring agency within a week. On the first day of the interview, there were two rounds: Communication Skills and Aptitude/Networking knowledge
The Communication Skills round was a breeze. They just wanted to check if you could speak English in a neutral accent and with good grammar.
Aptitude was a little tougher, but the questions were manageable. Being a CCNP helped me breeze past the Networking questions. I think i got 25 out of 25 correct :p
I was then told within 15 minutes of completing these rounds that I was selected. I had a 1:1 technical interview with a senior TAC engineer where he grilled me on various topics. Passed that round and went to the managerial round where a Manager took my interview to test if I fit the cut.
I got confirmation call from HR on the next day.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
This was asked in the managerial round. Where do you see yourself in 5 years from now?
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.