I applied through an employee referral. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Cisco (Bengaluru) in Nov 2010
Interview
I DONT KNOW HOW THE INTERVIEW PROCESS IS NOW BUT FOR ME THEY FOLLOWED LIKE,
1.TELIPHONIC ROUND( JUST SHELF INTRODUCTION)
2.APTITUDE ROUND.(it consist both apti as wel as academic related to N/Wking and OS
3. TECHNICAL ROUND,
a) C PROGRAMMING TEST
b) networking round
c) Academic round( on Engineering subjects)
d) Group Discussion
e) Manager round( about company and some technical questions related to N/W)
f) Final HR round - Got cancelled( reason- they selected only two people for HR round and decided to take both) and got offer letter within 5 days after the final round.
The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Cisco in May 2012
Interview
The interviewer (hiring manager) called me on time. At first he asked me to introduce my background, and then asked questions related with my background. Actually, there are about 12 qualifications in their job description in which 11 qualifications I am very strong on. However, finally he said the remaining 1 qualification (1 front end programming language) is critical for the job. So I knew there wouldn't be an offer.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Describe the singleton design pattern, and the factory pattern.
I applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Cisco in Feb 2012
Interview
I first got a phone call and the my availability was asked after which a day for interview was fixed. interview lasted for around 50min. I was asked to code on a shared screen with webcam on. The interviewer was one of the member from the same team which had an open position.
The interview started with a walk-through of my resume, and my interests. THe interviewer then narrated to me, what the team does.
I was asked just one question and was allowed to code in the lang i preferred, though he told he would appreciate if it was C. I chose C itself as that was the language I was comfortable with. He put forward a problem which was more of a data-structure, design question and I tried solvin it slowly. He gave few tips me whenever and wherever i got stuck.
It took 3 weeks, after which they responded with a reject.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
If there are 1000 websites and 1000 users, write a program and Data-structure such that i can query for the followin at real time:
1. Given any user, I get the list of all sites he/she has visited
2. Given any website, I get the list of all users who have visited it.