I applied through an employee referral. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Cisco in Aug 2013
Interview
The interview process started with a screening call from the hiring manager.
This screening conversation went for over 30 minutes. It was a very good call - the outcome of the call was that I would be receiving an email noting availability for four interviews - with the: 1) hiring manager; 2) the hiring manager's boss; 3) the manager of a peer team; and 4) another manager of a peer team.
The above interviews went well; however, I was not selected for the final round of interviews.
Even though I was not selected, I was very pleased to receive direct feedback from the hiring manager indicating that the other top candidates had more background in the software area that the job was emphasizing.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
The most difficult question sets were in regards to specific areas of SDN architecture.