I applied through an employee referral. The process took 1+ week. I interviewed at Cisco
Interview
I got the interview through referral. The manager and HR handled the scheduling really well. First was phone interview through cisco webex. I was given a task to write a program related to parsing strings. After the phone interview, I was scheduled for multiple tech interviews 4 rounds over webex itself that encompassed compiler related, string manipulation, linked list, regex, 1 system design question related to parallel processing on multi server system
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
string manipulation, linked list selection, system design for optimum throughput and responsive
I applied through other source. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Cisco (Chennai)
Interview
3 Technical Rounds.. First round is written test, second round is data structures, Algorithms with 2 panels. Third round more of deep c++ questions like threading, bitwise and Linux. Last is Managerial round.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Semaphore vs Mutex.. Explain and give Real time example.
I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Cisco (San Jose, CA) in Sep 2015
Interview
The interview procedure starts with a phone interview for around 1 hour first and followed by an onsite interview which went up to 6 hours by 4 team members and a managerial round.The questions are mostly from what I mentioned in my CV and I felt none of the interviewers deviate from that.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Most of the questions are from L2 / L3 like questions based on protocol BFD , ospf and inter vlan routing.
TCL script.