I applied through college or university. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Cisco (Bengaluru) in Jan 2015
Interview
Telephonic interview followed by 5 rounds of technical interview and one managerial interview.
Telephonic interview was very easy where fundamentals were checked.
5 round technical interview was detailed, Long drawn but was complete in one day.
Cisco campus is nice and the HR and technical teams care for the interviewer.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Questions on Algorithms and Datastructures.
Basics of networking.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Cisco (San Jose, CA) in Nov 2015
Interview
Typical interview with one phone screen and 3-4 on-site (or telephonic) interviews. You will be connected with a hiring manager and/or a team manager. They contact you and fix a date that suits both the parties. The interview itself was very smooth and was conducted over Cisco WebEx.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1. Given a binary tree, find if it is a BST or not.
2. Differences between router and switch.
3. Reverse a singly linked list.
Contacted by recruiter for phone screen. Made it to onsite but recruiter messed up and thought I was a local. Last minute, she schedules me in for a video conference which was to act as my onsite.
Did well on my “onsite”—three one-hour interviews with three different people. Recruiter came back with good news and asked for my salary expectation. I gave a reasonable market rate for a software engineer of my level in the Bay Area. Was told that “That is too high, base will probably be less than 100k. Will talk to team and get back to you.”
Does not get back to me. Emailed her twice before getting a short response about not moving on due to my high salary requests (even though it’s market rate).
Look elsewhere if you want to be paid what you are worth.