I applied through college or university. The process took 4 days. I interviewed at Cisco (Mysore) in Nov 2021
Interview
1 MCQ + Programming round conducted along with partnership with the university
1 Technical Round with two interviewers
1 Manager Round with two managers from teams who’re looking to hire
1 HR Round at the end to explain benefits and talk about location etc
I applied in-person. I interviewed at Cisco (Hyderabad) in Sep 2024
Interview
During the interview, I was asked questions on computer networking concepts, operating system fundamentals, and medium-level coding problems. The questions evaluated my understanding of networking principles, OS mechanisms like processes and memory management, and my ability to solve moderately challenging programming tasks.
I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Cisco (San Francisco, CA) in Apr 2024
Interview
R1 - 30 Min with Manager. Very strange didnt ask questions really just prepped me for R2.
R2 - Take home Terraform assignment. Fix the terraform code. Had lots of errors purposely trying to trick you. Spelling errors too.
R3 - Pannel Interview. They gave me a live troubleshooting of Chef module deployed on nginx server. Even though I didn't know any Chef/nginx. They also said no Chef knowledge is needed lol. Basically the solution was to use linux Grep to find a "spelling error" in Chef module. How is someone supposed to know if that without any prior Chef experience lol. The interview was not hard at all I work on things way harder than that but the interview was meant to trick you. Also during the Panel interview I got asked questions that dont make sense on purpose by one of the newbies. I didnt want to tell them they are wrong so i just let it be. They asked me "Explain how security groups in AWS applied to subnets work?" That functionality doesnt exist lol. That interviewer didnt know what he was talking about. How is it fair that im judged based on his dumb misinformed question?
easy but really to the point had good questions overall first round was online test 5000 applicants and i got selected in the top 20. then the interview round. so overall it was an okay experience