I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Cisco in Jan 2022
Interview
similar to like other tech interview it also has 3 interviews and all were related to technical only. each Interview stage it will start getting harder and harder and in the last interview project lead will take and based on you performance they will hire you
Interviewer was late for the scheduled time and, once he realized that there had been an error and that I was interviewing for a level below what he expected, was incredibly dismissive and unhelpful. Began berating HR and told me they would have to deal with me before hanging up the virtual interview.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Cisco (Bengaluru) in Dec 2021
Interview
The interview process was a little interesting. First-round was an online assessment conducted on the Hacerrank platform, then after 2 days, I got a call for scheduling a series of interviews from a cisco Recuriter. He was really nice and explained the entire interview process.
Why it was interesting because there was an interview drive going on called blind interviews where interviewers of the first 2 technical rounds will not have your resume and you will be judged entirely on your skills and job requirements. and even while joining the virtual interview you have to join with the candidate code(for ex candidate_10), not with your name.
I gave both technical rounds and both went very well then after an hour, I got a call from the recruiter that I have cleared my technical rounds and she wants to schedule a managerial round on the same day. I and the hiring manager had a great conversation. After a week I got a call from the recruiter that My profile has been shortlisted.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Round1 - Online assessment: It happened on Hacker rank, there were 4 coding questions and 6 MCQs which we have to solve in 75 mins. out of 4, 2 coding questions were related to the linked list and the other 2 were related to Arrays and general programming
Round2 - virtual Interview:
1) How a program works from the operating system point of view(how it starts in an operating system)
2) Questions related to ready queue, scheduling and main memory
3) questions related to Binary search with complexity
4) data structures and algorithm: focused areas were linked list, stack, array
5) Medium complexity puzzle
Round3 - virtual Interview:
1) Operating system concepts in deep: focused on static and dynamic loading of a program.
2) This job position was a python developer role so there were questions on python, OOPs, python references, decorators, etc.
3) Program to remove duplicate from a list in python in place with elements order conservation.
Round4: Manager Round virtual:
1) Questions about my project
2) Question on how you going to approach upliftment of a project
3) some behavioral questions.