I applied through college or university. The process took 3 days. I interviewed at Cisco (Bengaluru) in Jan 2009
Interview
There was a written test which had topics from the standard computer science subjects + some electronics basics like gates etc. Also mathematical/logic puzzles type qs.
Shortlisted candidates had to go through one technical interview (2 interviewers) and one HR interview (1:1) In the tech interview apart from usual puzzles and cs qs, the stress was on networking concepts as well. HR interview was also pretty thorough
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
They asked to describe how a message from one computer system reaches another over the internet.
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.
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