I applied through college or university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Cisco (Pilani) in Aug 2011
Interview
1 Aptitude + Two technical rounds and one round where they'll verify your whereabouts. The technical rounds mostly concentrated on the computer networks knowledge, although the questions were still pretty easy to crack and get through.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Mostly simple algorithms and networking questions. None of them too challenging.
I applied online. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Cisco (San Jose, CA) in Apr 2012
Interview
The Interview process was standard, there were no big surprises in terms of interview questions. Overall interesting experience.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
There were some algorithm and data structures oriented questions. Probably messed up a lot but they care about your thinking process more than the solution.