Cisco Technical Lead interview questions

I had given the interview with CIsco which lasted for about 50 days and had a very bad experience. To begin with after the 1st round it took the Recruitment team atleast 15 days to get back to me with the details of the 2nd round. After that there were 7 other rounds where i was interviewed from the software engineers to the program managers and then back again to the senior software Engineers. Cisco does not have a clue on how they would want the candidate to be evaluated except that they need to follow a set protocol on the interview process which does not make sense. After going through the 8 rounds they finally give an offer however, it does not match the expected salary that I had mentioned to them on day 1 of the interview. On asking them why they went ahead with all the rounds and wasted my time the HR had no answer. Never going to give an interview with Cisco ever again.

There were 4 rounds of technical interview and after that went fine, I had 1 interview by director/hiring manager. Thereafter, the HR conducted a telephonic interview to find what I thought of cisco. There was a temporary hiring freeze for 2-3 months during which the CEO changed and after that was lifted, I had 1 interview with tech lead who explained the nature of immediate work and asked me if I could do that job or if I had done similar work.