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      Software Engineer I Interview

      Feb 16, 2014
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      Ottawa, ON
      Declined offer
      Positive experience
      Easy interview

      Application

      I applied through college or university. The process took 1+ week. I interviewed at Cisco (Ottawa, ON) in Feb 2014

      Interview

      I was brought in for an interview through my school's campus recruiting. The recruiter asked several questions of me (about 10) including two programming questions about singly-linked lists. The programming questions were fairly straight-forward (e.g. remove an element from the list). There were a couple technical theory questions as well; for example, "What are the differences between processes and threads?" or "Why do we use threads?" The remaining questions were related to my work history, what kind of person I am, et cetera.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      There really weren't any big surprises here. If you're applying for this job, you probably have a CS degree of some sort under your belt, and unless you've been practically sleeping through your classes throughout your degree it shouldn't be difficult to answer most/all of these questions fully and intelligently.
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