In person, white board. Was a relatively easy programming interview, and basically meeting people. Had some run time questions, iteratively going through different designs until coming up with something optimal.
The online assessment is pretty standard across the industry, however the one Cisco sent was absolutely horrendous. For some reason they decided they wanted to make their own user interface instead of using established organizations like HackerRank and ended up with the worst online assessment I've seen. It enforced some weird version of Java and was overall a terrible experience
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Normal leetcode style questions that you see on an OA
In my experience, there is a low pressure behavioral interview followed by a straight forward technical assessment to complete at your earliest convenience. The interview experience was smooth, and I am grateful.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What is the difference between CISC and RISC architecture?