I applied through an employee referral. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Cisco (Bengaluru) in Jun 2020
Interview
It was a 4-hour interview conducted by 4 members, in one hour slots each.
There were breaks in between sessions to refresh. The interview was via WebEx and covered a range of questions in data structures, algorithms, general uC, uP concepts and C programming constructs.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
- Semaphore, mutex, function pointers, dynamic memory allocation
- Memory leak/ corruption detection tools
- Linked list, Queue
- Crash detection methods
- kernel debugging
- Custom Implementation of some library functions like atoi(), strtok()
- Bit manipulation
- BST
- Common C questions
- IPC methods
- Memory layout
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Cisco
Interview
First the interviewer asked me to discuss my resume. After that he asked me to explain the difference between thread and process. Followed by that it was a coding question in C
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What data structure would you use to store the information of the citizens in Montreal
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Cisco (Ottawa, ON) in Mar 2019
Interview
Round 1: Phone screening - 30 mins
Round 2: Coding test - HackerRank based (C/C++, Python , networking questions)
Round 3: 3 hour technical interview
They give a chance to ask questions whenever you want in those 3 hours, you can ask for hints to problems. Some coding questions where you share a screen and code; other questions asking how to approach a problem or programming basics.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Solve simple coding questions like reverse a string, check how many bits are set, debugging a given code.
Little endian vs Big endian
Basic networking questions like what does a router do? Difference between router and switch; what happens when you access a website?; network coding using python.
Resume based questions
Difference between Python class and C++ class.
Hash tables, pointers, sorting algorithms, python decorators, python list vs set.