I applied through college or university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Cisco (Goa) in Feb 2015
Interview
It was On Campus Interview. Initially we had an Online examination, question were from topics ranging from C programming to microprocessors, from MOSFETs to subnet masking.There were also a few aptitude questions. Apti questions were little bit tough.Out of 36 people who appeared for online test 15 were shortlisted.
After that we had two round of interviews.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
In my first technical round interview.I was asked some very basic C question.When I say basic I mean very basic you should know how memory allocation works in C.
I was asked following questions:
1. How to find out size of structure without using sizeof() function
2. What are holes in C
3. What is inheritance.
4. What are copy constructor and virtual function.
5.C program to reverse a linked list.
After that I had another round.Not sure whether that round was technical or HR .My interviewer grilled me for my low CGPA for around 50 min. He just asked me to write a code in python to print prime number between 1 and 100(since I mentioned Python in my resume). He also asked me what I know about software testing and whether I am willing to do software testing at CISCO. End of the day it was all about CGPA.
They selected two students with highest and second highest CGPA.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Cisco (Los Angeles, CA) in Feb 2015
Interview
Skype-like. Asked some concepts about data structures including hashtable and Binary Search Tree. Asked to solve some basic coding problems using stack and Binary Search Tree. Lasted for 40 min. High demand for C programming than other language.
I got a phone interview two days after submitted my CV online. 40 mins all on basic data structures. On-site interview lasts 2 hours with three different groups. Still on data structures, no logic and creative problems. The working place is not as good as i expected. people are coming late, and looks exhausted even in the morning