I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Cisco (Calgary, AB) in Apr 2017
Interview
I had a video conference with one of their senior hiring managers. The atmosphere was normal (I was personally stressed, but that is normal for me). He asked about who I was, what my goals were, and what my previous experiences were. I believe that part went well. Then he asked me to debug a piece of C++ code (which was my area of expertise). Unfortunately I had not looked at C++ in nearly a year, so I was unable to debug it at all. Panicking did not help. The atmosphere was tense after that, although he tried to make it calming but clearly telegraphed that my chances with Cisco were shot
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Tell me about yourself.
Debug this C++ code (involved run-time errors, an initialization problem, and lots of pointer mistakes)
I applied through college or university. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Cisco (New York, NY) in Oct 2015
Interview
Handed in my resume at career fair and applied online and got an interview a couple weeks later. It was online through WebEx. They asked a bunch of typical behavioral questions and questions about my activities and stuff. Then had me share my screen and code some technical problems. First was a difficult data structures scenario I tried doing but struggled with. He asked me some questions and we discussed a bit but he then gave me an easier problem and helped me work through that. Got an offer about a week later.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
If you had the coordinates of all the stars within a galaxy (or something along those lines) and you wanted to find all of the ones within a certain distance from earth how would you do it? Asked to code the classes/data structures for this.
I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Cisco in Oct 2016
Interview
Applied through university campus recruitment program and got selected for an interview. Interviewer wasn't very friendly but the interview went alright. Not very conversational and very straight forward. Interviewer asked a couple behavioral questions, a few physics questions and rest were electrical engineering questions. Looked at your thinking process mostly.