I applied through college or university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Cisco (Bengaluru) in Dec 2011
Interview
Interview was quite smooth in my case as I was mostly asked basic Network related questions which I was quite comfortable with. Other than that, I was asked about some basic data structures/algos and when those would be helpful to increase a router performance
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 3 days. I interviewed at Cisco (Raleigh, NC) in May 2015
Interview
The manager of the team called and took a 1 hour phone screen round which was resume based. Immediately called onsite since I'm a local candidate. Onsite interview was a rigorous 4 hour interview, with questions about my work and past experience, along with a few C programming questions and basic networking/ OS questions
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
C programming questions typically asked in interviews.
I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Cisco (San Jose, CA) in May 2011
Interview
Got the call through an employee referral. Phone screening included a simple coding round. Later there were 3 onsite interviews with the manager, lead and one more developer from the same team.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
NDAed. Basic data structures and algorithms. Interview is not that hard compared to other top Bay area companies like Facebook and Google.