I applied through college or university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Cisco (Bengaluru) in Jun 2012
Interview
I did my summer internship at Cisco this year, for Internship there were two telephonic rounds. First one was technical round, all questions were from Data Structures and Object Oriented Programming Principles; second round was an HR Round where they asked me about my interests, family, etc.
During the internship I applied for Full time job, where they took one written round, which had 50 questions (20 Math/MAT, 30 Technical) and was supposed to be done in one hour. Technical questions were from Digital Electronics, Computer Architecture, and Microprocessors/Microcontrollers.
After written round there were technical, manager and HR rounds. In Technical round they asked me questions from my Projects, Data Structures and Sockets, Manager round had few technical questions and brain teasers, and HR round had questions like why I want to join Cisco, etc.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Technical Round was ok, HR asked some tricky and direct questions like why I want to work for a company rather than joining my family business
Standard panel, very simple leetcodes. reverse linked list kind of vibe s . I was literarly asked about how a linked list is structured and reversing it. there was almost no friction which I was shocked by one of the reason I did not accept
They care about your skills, rather than your background. They have a template which they provide and you got to fill that, everyone is provided a unique number. You are instructed not to disclose any of your personal details in the due course of your interview.
The interview process was two rounds. The first round was a behavioral interview. Straightforward questions, like tell me about the most technically challenging project you have worked on. The second round was a system design interview.