I applied online. I interviewed at Cisco in Sep 2024
Interview
Received link for 1 hr 30 minutes online assessment. I had 5 days to submit. Completed all the questions but didn't move on to the next round. The response was fast.
I applied online. I interviewed at Cisco (Toronto, ON) in Sep 2024
Interview
After you apply for the intern position, you will soon receive an assessment link. It has three coding problems: the first two are easy, and the last is tricky. Even easy issues may also meet some test cases that fail. You need to read the questions carefully.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Q: Lucy loves to play the Hop, Skip and Jump game. Given an N*M matrix and starting from cell (1,1), her challenge is to hop in an anti-clockwise direction and skip alternate cells. The goal is to find out the last cell she would hop onto.
Write an algorithm to find the last cell Lucy would hop onto after moving anti-clockwise and skipping alternate cells.
Technical OA and then 30 min interview with a team member. Interviewer asked about my past projects and research and then asked a technical question about proper data structures and ways to search