Cisco interview questions

Round-2: 1. Synchronization questions. 2. Given two dictionaries. Print pairs not common in the dictionaries. 3. Implement a program that tracks events from apps on a system (watchdog). 4. Spinlock purpose and usage. 5. Debug questions.

Round-3: 1. Design a firmware update service that sends updates to servers deployed at client.

Round-4: 1. Tell me biggest challenge you faced. 2. Array with sorted integers, has been rotated m number of times. Construct the original array sequence. 3. Synchronization questions, and lockless. 4. Memory management, DMA. 5. Explain how fwrite() works from userspace till device. 6. If you disagree with your teammate on some task, how do you handle it?

Round-5: 1. Puzzle question 2. Where do you see yourself in 10 years? 3. Tell me a time you worked on something and failed. What did you learn? 4. Explain your job role to a 5-year old.