I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Cisco (Banga)
Interview
this was a telephonic interview for the software engineer. he asked os quest ions like process scheduling and the stack corruption etc. about the printf statement. detecting a fault coin from the coins with a physical balance with minimum number of iterations. detecting a looop in single linked list.
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Cisco (San Jose, CA) in Dec 2012
Interview
It was 3 hours long with 4 interviewers. They asked questions on Java, data structures, and single sign-on. It was average for a senior software engineer, not too tough and not too easy. It was appropriate for the position.
I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Cisco (Boston, MA) in Aug 2016
Interview
Asked about the resume, then several basic data structures, binary tree search, tree traversal, etc. Also asked about some basic algorithms, BFS, DFS, backtracking, recursion, etc. One hard question is about construct a binary search tree using heap, or priorityqueue. Also some questions about Java, Class, Objects, etc.