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      Engineering Interview

      Aug 21, 2010
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      San Jose, CA
      Declined offer
      Neutral experience
      Easy interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Cisco (San Jose, CA) in Dec 2008

      Interview

      was contacted by a recruiter who found my resume online. Hesitant to deal with me since i was an outstation candidate. But it so happened i was going to be in town around that period and so managed to get an interview scheduled for that period. Walked in and waited for a while before getting to meet the hiring manager. Had a 30 minute one on one that was more of a personality/aptitude test rather than a technical interview. I thought i did a pretty good job but was informed the following day that i was rejected. Luckily i aced another interview the following day at another company. The day after i received a mail that i had actually been selected at cisco and that they mistakenly sent me a rejection letter. But i was happy with the other position and declined the offer.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      how differently would you approach a hardware design problem as against a software problem?
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      Engineering Interview

      Jan 14, 2017
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      No offer
      Positive experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied through college or university. The process took 1+ week. I interviewed at Cisco in Jan 2017

      Interview

      I applied through university career job board, and got invited to interview after 11 days. The interview process includes a 45-minute technical phone interview followed by decision to continue with another round of technical interview. The questions were related to design, data structures, algorithms and basic coding.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Given a binary tree, return the zig zag order of the tree.
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      Engineering Interview

      Dec 20, 2011
      Anonymous employee
      Hyderabad
      Accepted offer
      Positive experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied through college or university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Cisco (Hyderabad) in Dec 2011

      Interview

      A difficult written test(too many subjects with basics and little advanced questions) followed by a two member panel interview followed by a very easy hr interview

      Interview questions [2]

      Question 1

      How to overcome the problem with intruders in design of high bandwidth systems?
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      How to sort a single linked list?
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      Engineering Interview

      Mar 16, 2011
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      No offer
      Positive experience
      Easy interview

      Application

      I applied through college or university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Cisco in Feb 2011

      Interview

      received a mail from the company asking for a time slot to schedule a phone interview for a internship position. The interview lasted for 25 mins and went well. Very easy technical questions on networking and many question on my prior wrk exp and many behavioral questions were asked

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      if you had an offer from ur prev employer and this company which one would u choose and y
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