I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Cisco (San Francisco, CA) in Mar 2021
Interview
Coding questions, Hashing and driver development in C, linked lists, arrays, bit manipulation, string manipulation, Unix debugging, Talked about the prior experience, Behavioral questions on how to deal with engineers.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Hashing and driver development in C, linked lists, arrays, bit manipulation, string manipulation, Unix debugging,
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.