I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Cisco (Vancouver, BC) in Feb 2021
Interview
This opportunity was started as a networking reach out from manager (phone call). The next step included a take home technical coding test that was emailed back the next day. After a review, an in-house formal interview with multiple managers was scheduled. These interviews also included a technical review of the coding test by a couple of the team members.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
On a project that you worked on, use a whiteboard to draw out the components of that system and describe how each of the components interact with each other.
They care about your skills, rather than your background. They have a template which they provide and you got to fill that, everyone is provided a unique number. You are instructed not to disclose any of your personal details in the due course of your interview.
The interview process was two rounds. The first round was a behavioral interview. Straightforward questions, like tell me about the most technically challenging project you have worked on. The second round was a system design interview.
3 technical rounds of 35-45 mins each for a 5 years experience JS fullstack.
1. Project currently working on + design patterns employed and resume based questions in details to check the depth.
2. System design interview - asked me to mention an approach to design a microservice for retail client. Followed up by questions on why I've chosen a particular tech stack and questions on how to tackle certain situations in real word on such services (inventory + payments etc).
3. DS based test - question was bit easy.