I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Cisco (Waterloo, ON) in Oct 2020
Interview
I was called to interview with Cisco after meeting with one of their engineers at Job Fair. I had 4 rounds of interviews with 3 different teams. Each round of interview lasted at least 2.5 hours and would consist of multiple interviews lasting 45 mins each with different members of the team.
The complete interview process lasted for about 2 months.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
All of the interviews were technical and consisted of asking me about one of my projects and then moving on to technical questions regarding the field and then a set of coding challenges.
The following are the areas in which I was asked technical questions:
- Networking
- Linux Programming
- Processes + Multithreading
- Memory Management
- General questions about C/Python
These are the coding challenges I was asked about:
- Check the error in the code and fix it
- Count the number of 1's in a binary number
- Reverse order traversal of binary tree
- How to copy a string in C
- Find the missing number in an array when given 1->n numbers
Most of the coding questions were followed by some analysis + questions regarding possible errors.
Even after clearing hackerrank test and passing all test cases, they mailed that we wont be moving ahead with your profile. I passed all test cases of both the questions.
I applied online. I interviewed at Cisco (San Jose, CA) in Nov 2020
Interview
This was an automated reply email with a link for a LeetCode test. The email was very unclear about the fact that you were about to start a challenging timed programming exam.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
3 LeetCode questions, first easy, next medium, next I didn't get to