I applied through college or university. The process took 1+ week. I interviewed at Cisco (Vancouver, BC) in Feb 2017
Interview
This is an OpenDNS office. The interviewer is very kind and friendly. He asks me lots of questions about my project experiences. And he asks me some technical words about network security. In the last part, I asked him some questions about Cisco and network security.
I applied through college or university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Cisco (Bengaluru) in Aug 2013
Interview
I got selected in Cisco through placements .Cisco had come for placements for the first time to our college. The first round was written test , mainly based on C programming and electronics and communication questions mainly communication related questions.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
2 nd and 3rd round was technical interview. Questions were mainly based on linkedlists , Graphs , and all the types of data structures. 3 rd round was HR . Usually HR round is for formality . If the first 3 rounds are cleared then we are selected. It was an awesome moment and I was the first one to get selected among 6 people in Engineering stream .
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Cisco (Bengaluru) in Jul 2013
Interview
The interview process started off with two telephonic rounds where your basic coding skills and logic is tested. A few problem solving questions were asked as well. After which I was brought onsite where I had another five rounds of interview. The first round was a purely coding round where I had to debug some code and also code some basic algorithm problems. Leetcode (Easy/Medium) level which is easy to crack. It was followed by one round of networking knowledge which actually went into detail because I had a telecomm background. The third round was an OS round where I was interviewed about my coding environments and different commands and so on. There was another coding round where I was asked more difficult coding questions. The last round consisted of me being asked to design a chess game and implement it.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Design a chess game. (Class design and implementation)