I applied through an employee referral. The process took 5 weeks. I interviewed at Cisco (San Jose, CA) in Jan 2011
Interview
On Emp referral, the hiring manager called for a telephone screening. Initial round was arranged with four engineers with technical questions, some code examples. Some folks had a good overall system knowledge and asked relavant questions. Final round with three engineers. Hiring manager called and discussed the offer.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Cisco (San Jose, CA) in Mar 2013
Interview
1 phone round,
multiple face 2 face rounds, on webex.
Questions about :
- About relevant past project experiences and my role
- deep technical discussions
- programming
- problem solving
Their aim to help you answer as much as possible.
Open technical discussions about problems from past projects and learning.
C and data structure problems..
Networking fundamentals have to be good.
Be honest, no reasonable interviewer all ask you something you have not worked on or don't have expertise in.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
program to return a bit mask given a host ip address
I applied online. The process took 7 weeks. I interviewed at Cisco (Bengaluru) in May 2015
Interview
I had given the interview with CIsco which lasted for about 50 days and had a very bad experience. To begin with after the 1st round it took the Recruitment team atleast 15 days to get back to me with the details of the 2nd round. After that there were 7 other rounds where i was interviewed from the software engineers to the program managers and then back again to the senior software Engineers. Cisco does not have a clue on how they would want the candidate to be evaluated except that they need to follow a set protocol on the interview process which does not make sense.
After going through the 8 rounds they finally give an offer however, it does not match the expected salary that I had mentioned to them on day 1 of the interview. On asking them why they went ahead with all the rounds and wasted my time the HR had no answer. Never going to give an interview with Cisco ever again.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Everything releated to Big Data and distributed systems, Map-Reduce, SPark, Etc.. Not very tough.. Basic of Big Data technology