I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Cisco (Ottawa, ON) in Apr 2022
Interview
I interviewed at Cisco Systems, Ottawa office.
I had 7 interviews in total for 2 different teams.
3 technical interviews with a focus on OS and C programming.
The other 4 interviews were with management.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
- Difference between a process and a thread
- Virtual vs physical memory
- how does a scheduler work and give some examples of scheduling algorithms
- Medium Leetcode qustions
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Cisco (Raleigh, NC) in May 2022
Interview
The interview was pretty relaxed, everyone was very friendly and especially chatty. Three interviews, over a week, offer within two weeks of first contact. Asked more personal questions about my specific resume.
I applied through college or university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Cisco (Chennai) in Dec 2020
Interview
The interview process consisted of 3 rounds. Two technical and one HR.
In the technical rounds questions where mostly asked on computer architecture. I had very few questions based on networks. In the second round, I was asked to given a problem of keeping track of large number of streaming time stamps and analysing the data. The HR round was pretty free going and almost everyone who reached till the HR round was selected