I applied online. The process took 5 days. I interviewed at Cisco (Bengaluru) in Jul 2015
Interview
Initial telephonic Round.
Three technical Round. In that one round was writing code & solving couple of puzzles.
One Managerial Round. Couple of puzzles here also to check my thought process.
Waiting for HR discussion.
All rounds panel were very cooperative and giving enough time to think and answer.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Pretty much on Spring (in depth), REST, Hibernate and SQL
Most of them were scenario based.
Write a program for Stack implementation?
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Cisco (Bengaluru) in Apr 2012
Interview
It would take a full day, face to face interview. Prior to that you have to qualify teleponic. telephonic would be to qualify yourself whether you are worth to call for a face to face.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Operating systems concepts, C, networking, Data structures. about your projects in details, write programs on systems. TCP IP understanding.
I have passed one phone interview, and two onsite technical interviews.
Last person i spoke with was department director, some indian guy with a lot of complexes.
He kept saying how it is important to be hard worker , and being only smart is not enough.
Few times he pointed out that he doesn't care about my past experiences in Armenia.
I would leave the interview before it finished, but friend of mine was also working there so i had to stay and enjoy the performance :)
It is funny to see such big name as Cisco having such a mean directors.
P.S. they even checked my background before talking with indian guy.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
The longest Increasing Subsequence (LIS) problem is to find the length of the longest subsequence of a given sequence such that all elements of the subsequence are sorted in increasing order. For example, length of LIS for { 10, 22, 9, 33, 21, 50, 41, 60, 80 } is 6 and LIS is {10, 22, 33, 50, 60, 80}.