I have only gotten an online assessment from Cisco. t was taken place on the hackerrank website, and the questions are pretty similar to the common questions on Leetcode. I think I have done well on it. However, I haven't heard anything back yet.
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They asked me something similar to House Robber question on Leetcode.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Cisco (Bengaluru) in Dec 2023
Interview
- 2 Coding rounds. 1st one is screening, 2nd one is more into LLD + Coding
1 System Design - HLD and design concepts
1 Values - Situation based questions as per Cisco values
1 HM - Both tech and situation based discussion
1 HR - Salary negotiation
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- Questions related to Stack operations, String manipulations, Array searching
- Tell me about a situation when you were given bad feedback / missed deadline / suggestion was not entertained etc and how did you handle those situations.
- Designing event streamer and followup questions
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Cisco (San Jose, CA) in Sep 2023
Interview
Recruiter Call - initial screening round
OA round - had 2 leetcode medium/easy level questions
Behavioral round - with a manager
Technical round - had 2 coding questions with an Engineer
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1. Leetcode question was around Strings and arrays