I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Cisco (Bengaluru) in Oct 2021
Interview
Good experience. Got to know the areas to improve.
Total 1 OA + 2 Technical rounds + 2 HM rounds(mine was one extra round because they wanted to analyze me more). Mostly DSA and system design questions.
Managers are knowledgeable. They push you well to think better. HRs are something to improve. They ghost you by not telling you if you're rejected or not. Had to wait for 3 weeks for a rejection call, That too after constant follow-up.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1. expression evaluation using stack
2. design a 3 tier web application and some follow up questions
3. rest API related (had to code)
4. min heap implementation
5. one entire round for microservice architecture