I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Cisco (Cisco, TX) in Jan 2016
Interview
Skype interview with numerous technical questions. Was asked questions about how to effectively test and modify code from GIT without damaging code. Also asked questions regarding definitions or theory of different languages
I applied through college or university. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Cisco in Jan 2016
Interview
I applied through a career fair at my university. They looked at my resume and were interested in me so they scheduled an interview on campus for the next morning. It was pretty relaxed (compared to other interviews). A mixture of basic behavioral questions, technical questions and some more information about my resume. The interview went on for about 45 minutes. The process took about 2 weeks for me.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Behavioral questions
Where do you see yourself in 5 years?
What other companies are you interested in now?
What are your strengths and weaknesses?
Talk about your resume.
Talk about extracurricular that you did/do.
On a scale of 1 to 10 (being the best), how do you rate yourself to use Google (I.E. - are you really comfortable using Google to find answers)?
Technical questions
How do you know when data has achieved third normal form (in terms of relational databases)?
What type of visualization tools have you used?
Two computers are connected to a switch and the communication isn't working between them. How do you go about troubleshooting it?
Describe how you would theoretically setup a cloud environment.
What is AWS (amazon web services)?
There were more questions but I can't remember them all now.
I applied through college or university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Cisco in Feb 2016
Interview
I had a brief interaction with Cisco representatives at university career fare. They asked me few questions about projects that I did and was called for an onsite interview the next day.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Design question.. On how are you going to represent a train.. number of passenger cart it's current carrying .. number of passengers in every cart etc... basically to check the understanding of OO concepts... Some questions about projects .... Bit manipulation: No. of bits set in an 32 bit integer..