I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Cisco
Interview
On campus non-technical interview. Was very relaxed, focus on my prior experience. Interviewer was very passionate about his work and seems excited about brining on new interns. No technical questions.
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Cisco (Cisco, TX) in Jan 2016
Interview
Skype interview with numerous technical questions. Was asked questions about how to effectively test and modify code from GIT without damaging code. Also asked questions regarding definitions or theory of different languages
I applied through college or university. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Cisco in Jan 2016
Interview
I applied through a career fair at my university. They looked at my resume and were interested in me so they scheduled an interview on campus for the next morning. It was pretty relaxed (compared to other interviews). A mixture of basic behavioral questions, technical questions and some more information about my resume. The interview went on for about 45 minutes. The process took about 2 weeks for me.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Behavioral questions
Where do you see yourself in 5 years?
What other companies are you interested in now?
What are your strengths and weaknesses?
Talk about your resume.
Talk about extracurricular that you did/do.
On a scale of 1 to 10 (being the best), how do you rate yourself to use Google (I.E. - are you really comfortable using Google to find answers)?
Technical questions
How do you know when data has achieved third normal form (in terms of relational databases)?
What type of visualization tools have you used?
Two computers are connected to a switch and the communication isn't working between them. How do you go about troubleshooting it?
Describe how you would theoretically setup a cloud environment.
What is AWS (amazon web services)?
There were more questions but I can't remember them all now.