I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Cisco (Milpitas, CA) in Jan 2008
Interview
Had couple telephonic conversations about my resume, interests, and to improve my understanding about the position, reporting and the company. Questions on my resume and interests were pretty standard like - What different technologies I have used, Why I wanted to move, What I'm looking forward to work on, My dream job in next 5 yrs, My educational interests etc.
On site interviews were all 1:1 with 4 sr.engineers, 2 dev managers, 1 qa manager, and finally a Sr.Director. Interview was pretty technical and grilling. People were really nice. They were looking at my approach than the exactness of my answers. Their questions were highly adaptive and deeply conceptual.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
(Gave a little high-level model of packet-forwarding and shot this question - )
What design changes would you suggest to improve the routing-speed?
(After I gave out an answer - )
What else are the alternative ways (Good or Bad) of achieving this? Give the major pros and cons or those approaches.
Analytical problem related to data structures -
Something like - A mouse and xxx (maybe tortoise) started running in opposite directions on a 100 mile highway. Mouse made stops for this and that, and some numbers for times-spent. These numbers are some relative to those of tortoise too. The final question is how many times would the mouse have ran each way, before the tortoise completed one round.
I applied through college or university. The process took 1+ week. I interviewed at Cisco in Jan 2017
Interview
I applied through university career job board, and got invited to interview after 11 days. The interview process includes a 45-minute technical phone interview followed by decision to continue with another round of technical interview. The questions were related to design, data structures, algorithms and basic coding.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Given a binary tree, return the zig zag order of the tree.
I applied through college or university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Cisco (Hyderābād) in Dec 2011
Interview
A difficult written test(too many subjects with basics and little advanced questions) followed by a two member panel interview followed by a very easy hr interview
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
How to overcome the problem with intruders in design of high bandwidth systems?
I applied through college or university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Cisco in Feb 2011
Interview
received a mail from the company asking for a time slot to schedule a phone interview for a internship position. The interview lasted for 25 mins and went well.
Very easy technical questions on networking and many question on my prior wrk exp and many behavioral questions were asked
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
if you had an offer from ur prev employer and this company which one would u choose and y