I applied through a staffing agency. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Cisco (San Jose, CA) in Oct 2008
Interview
I found the position through a staffing agency who set up the initial screening call. After a satisfactory conversation (high level discussion of experience), I was scheduled for an onsite interview. The onsite interview featured two 1:1 interviews by separate sw engineers that entailed detailed coding answers to various questions and some questions regarding the particular protocol (SNMP) in the development project.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Code a binary search tree, insert and delete functions
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Cisco (Bengaluru) in Dec 2009
Interview
Cisco mainly look for your knowledge on networking side, and should be good in C/C++ or whichever language you're being interviewed for.
Also you should be good on operating system concepts.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
I didn't prepare much on networking when I went for the interview, so I found it difficult to answer some of the questions related to TCP/IP and networking.
But I was able to question properly on C programming and all and was able to clear the interview.
I had a phone interview with general questions about my backgraound, the next round was a phone+web interview; the guy type programming questions and you fill out the designated space
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Constructing, Sorting and reversing singly linked list, doubly linked list