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Phone interview - basic networking qns involving routing and switching concepts as well as wireless concepts: What is stp? What's the difference between rtsp and stp? What makes rstp converge faster? Two computers are connected via a L2 switch - explain the ping concept. Also, explain how the mac table on a switch gets populated Wireless: What's the difference between 2.4 and 5.0 GHz? What's difference between 802.11n and 802.11 ac? face to face interview - had 2 interviews They ask basic trouble shooting qns but some qns are quite tricky. They will draw a diagram on the baord with very little information. Your supposed to ask them questions and flesh out the answer. You should know your subnetting, stp, vlans,pings,arp, dhcp, dns
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Network Support Engineer

Interviewed at Meraki

3.9★
Oct 10, 2015

Phone interview - basic networking qns involving routing and switching concepts as well as wireless concepts: What is stp? What's the difference between rtsp and stp? What makes rstp converge faster? Two computers are connected via a L2 switch - explain the ping concept. Also, explain how the mac table on a switch gets populated Wireless: What's the difference between 2.4 and 5.0 GHz? What's difference between 802.11n and 802.11 ac? face to face interview - had 2 interviews They ask basic trouble shooting qns but some qns are quite tricky. They will draw a diagram on the baord with very little information. Your supposed to ask them questions and flesh out the answer. You should know your subnetting, stp, vlans,pings,arp, dhcp, dns

Why Cisco? How did you find this job position? What are your hobbies? Give me an example of a situation where you had a disagreement with a colleague and how did you solve the issue? What is Docker? (They also asked some questions about the product of the presentation)
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Network Engineer Summer

Interviewed at Cisco

4.1★
Mar 11, 2021

Why Cisco? How did you find this job position? What are your hobbies? Give me an example of a situation where you had a disagreement with a colleague and how did you solve the issue? What is Docker? (They also asked some questions about the product of the presentation)

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