I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Cisco in Oct 2016
Interview
I had to go through 4 interviews from Senior Managers and Senior Quality Engineers. The overall interview process was quite straightforward. They asked me questions mostly regarding data science and about my previous experiences. I got the offer after 2 weeks and I accepted the offer.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Prepare for all the data science topics like Machine Learning, Time series analysis, Statistics etc. They will also ask you a lot about your previous work experience if any and regarding your background and how well could you fit into the role. Interviews were not too difficult but you need to prepare well in order to get an offer. Best of luck.
I applied online. I interviewed at Cisco (South San Francisco, CA) in Jan 2017
Interview
Applied online in December 2016. The recruiter contacted me after a week and set up a 45 minutes screening. She said it includes programming and system design. In the screening I only got a question on cloning a graph which is in my opinion is more appropriate for software engineering role than a data science role. Apparently, since Cisco is a network company, proficiency in graphs is very important to any role. However, this was not mentioned in the job description which made me mistakenly apply for the position.
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Cisco
Interview
Received email to schedule the interview. The following week I interviewed with three different people via WebEx. The next day I received an email from the hiring manager with data files attached and was asked to complete a "homework" assignment within the next week. Everyone was very nice and easy to talk to.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What do you love? What do you love? How does your past research experience relate to what our team is currently doing?