I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Cisco (Bengaluru) in Aug 2015
Interview
A pre-interview screening telephonic, followed by on premise writing assessment round.
The telephonic was conducted by a tech writer@cisco Banngalore. It was a typical tell me about your resume, achievements, DDLC and a scenario(at what stage in a project should a technical writer be involved). It went off well and I got a call for the interview round.
The test was of 90 min duration which had 5 questions on basic networking domain, a procedure writing to create a post in a forum with certain pre-conditions.
There was only 1 position and 11 of us competing for that.
They kept us all waiting for around an hour before announcing two names and showing the door for the rest.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Cisco (Bengaluru) in Mar 2011
Interview
Had multiple rounds. The final was conducted by the QA manager. Even thought I did not know much about the domain, he was generous enough to help me deduct few answers.