I applied through college or university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Cisco (Los Angeles, CA) in Oct 2016
Interview
Applied through campus careers website and Cisco jobs page and had a campus interview two weeks later. There was only one campus interview that was an hour long and consisted of behavioral and technical questions. It was a good experience and really easy interview but they wanted you to know a little bit about the company and some of the new projects they are working on. Overall had a good experience but I never heard back from them and find that to be very unprofessional. The recruiters didn't even give out any contact information so I never heard from them.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Behavioral: previous projects, experience, interests, what I knew about the company, courses I've taken so far
Technical: no actual coding but asked specifically how I would go about coding certain problems, linked lists, binary trees, hash tables, stacks, recursion (my interviewer was a big fan of recursion and asked detailed questions some of which I did not know the answer to) There was no way you could do well if you don't already know your stuff
I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Cisco in Oct 2016
Interview
Everything went smooth, two rounds of interview. 1 on 1 for the first round, and another phone interview. Interviewers are very nice and the process is straightforward. Answered the questions.
I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Cisco (San Jose, CA) in Oct 2016
Interview
tl;dr: some of their offices are just renovated and may not have snacks around. Bring some by yourself if you get hungry easily during interviews.
I had 2 phone calls with them before visiting onsite. The first was the recruiter and the second hiring manager. They're mostly about past experience and no coding interview included.
During onsite visit I met 5 people. The first interviewer asked behavioral questions and a brain teaser. The second asked C++ OOP (e.g. multiple inheritance) and coding. The 3rd and 4th, one of which was by remote conferencing, were about some background knowledge of the project I'm applying to. And the last was the hiring manager who also took me to their cafe for lunch. It seems they just switched to agile workflow so they emphasize a lot on how well you could work under agile environment.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Behavioral questions, brain teaser, C++ OOP (e.g. multiple inheritance) and coding