I applied through college or university. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Cisco (San Diego, CA) in Oct 2015
Interview
The interviewer was a very friendly person. He began by asking me about the projects that I had done in undergraduate school. Then he shifted on to a couple of design questions related to client server model and networking protocols. These were just basic questions and did not require in depth knowledge of networks. Then he asked one programming question. He asked me to suggest approaches to solving it. And later on, implement one of the approaches on a white board. Then he asked me if I had any questions for him. I asked a couple of questions and then it was done.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Implement an algorithm to shuffle songs in a playlist
I applied through college or university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Cisco (Columbus, OH) in Oct 2012
Interview
I submitted my resume through my college's career services and was contacted for an interview. The interview was held on campus, and I met with one technical person from Cisco. Following the interview, I was contacted the following day for an internship opportunity.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
I was only a Sophomore, so I was a novice and couldn't really perform the typical interview questions. They ended up taking a project listed on my resume and asked for more details. One of the questions related to this project was "How was my robot able to detect an analog light signal?" Nothing that I didn't know the answer to.
I applied through college or university. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Cisco (Boston, MA) in Sep 2013
Interview
Cisco was one of the companies at my college career fair. I met them there and dropped a resume. Within a few days, they contacted me to schedule an on campus interview. The interview was limited to an hour and involved standard questions about a project or team experience and then a few technical questions.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
You have nine identical balls, one weighs more than the rest. You have a balancing scale and can only use it two times. How do you find out which one is the heavier ball?