I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Cisco
Interview
The first interview was through phone and it was mostly going through my resume, while trying to focus on the areas related to telecomunication and problem solving
The second interview was a 3:30 hour long and was done by two people. It was a very technical interview, quesitons about C++, how to write functions ( recursion, deleting and adding to linked lists ) , microprocessor behaviour, registers, and they ask what I follow to stay up to date with the latest tech-related news
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How to check the precision of the values registered in the hi and low parts of the register !
I applied through college or university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Cisco (Guwahati) in Dec 2012
Interview
Cisco came to our college..
- There was a written test of around 1-1.5 hrs. Questions were on Aptitude, Quant, Data Structures, C Programmng, Microprocessors, Communication Networks, Embedded Systems, Some semiconductor details were also asked. No negative marking .
- 20-30 students were shortlisted for interview.
Interview Questions were :
He gave me a C Code and asked me to find errors in it Errors were due to passing by value and passing by reference types of args to functions..
- Difference between RISC and CISC type of architectures...
- Nyquist Sampling theorem
- Shannon's 2nd channel source coding theorem.
- Principles of CDMA operation/ encoding formulas etc.
- Questions related to Network layer in OSI Model. (IP DataGram etc.)
- Questions Related to Ethernet address and Broadcast routing.
- Questions related to domain name and DNS servers, NAT,DHCP etc..
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
About DNS Servers.. The interviwerer kept asking me questions about this topic