I applied through college or university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Cisco (San Jose, CA) in Nov 2010
Interview
I was scheduled an interview in my first semester.
Interview was really good. Mainly stressed on the academics. Lots of questions in Operating systems:
1. what are threads?
2. What is the difference between multi-programming and multi-tasking.
3. Virtual Memory
4. Distributed systems.
Algorithms:
1. Whats the difference between greedy and divide & conquer approach.
Networks:
1. What are VLAN?
2. DHCP
3. TCP-Congestion control
4. Questions on application suitable for UDP.
5. Sliding window protocols.
Finally:
Why Cisco?
What do you know about Cisco products?
Who are the competitors?
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
Technical Q: On operating systems-Threads, VM, Multiprogramming, Distr OS
Networks: VLAN, NAT, TCP, UDP
First round : Interviewer was really sweet.He asked me to describe my projects and asked questions on it ,i discussed two of my main projects related to web development and the discussion happened around 30 min since one of my project was related to BFS /DFS approach he also asked me to write code for the graph traversal iteratively and recursively both.
Round 2 : Interviewer was on the detective mode.He asked questions related to os in the depth level and gave one coding question when I don't remember it happened through WebEx platform after that I didn't receive hr round
it was good, had an online hackerrank exam initially, after passing the exam, had only one technical round with hiring manager discussing previous experience, behavorial questions, automation testing, communication skills
After finishing the OA. There were two technical rounds. Questions were pretty basic and straight from your computer fundamentals. The second technical round tested if you knew in depth about the languages and tools used. Finally there was an HR round.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What are the advantages of different sorting algorithms. Basic network principles. HTTP, REST etc.