I applied online. I interviewed at Cisco (Bengaluru) in Jun 2015
Interview
I applied through online as a 2.1 years java experienced candidate. There was four round interview. First two was technical based on strong J2ee, basic spring and basic hibernte concept. second was strong concept of core java. Third was managerial non technical. forth was HR Over all interview was good not tough. And interview was also very helpful. all round were in same day. After one week I got offer letter.
I applied through college or university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Cisco (Chennai) in Feb 2012
Interview
First round written with mixed set of questions ranging from aptitude, programming languages, electronics etc.
Second round technical interview consists asking about data structures, networking, some c puzzles.
Third round interviewer asked puzzle and some behavioural questions.
Then HR round.
Interview experience was nice. Most of the filtering of candidates happened in first round itself, so if you have cleared first round it will be easy.
Contacted by recruiter and had a 30 minute talk.
Went on to have a phone interview which was a technical programming interview. Some basic computational problem.
Went onsite and had 4 hours of interviews including architectural design and programming.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Asked me to describe how computers work at a high and low level, as well as design a REST API for a complete system