I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Cisco
Interview
In first round, there was one coding questions, I guess around 25-30 MCQs. First round was conducted online in Hackerrank. They are mostly concentrated on basics or fundamentals. In our college they shortlisted few for next round, of those some did all mcqs correctly and some did only coding, some did both. But I would say to attend both. MCQs can be mastered using strong fundamentals and coding u need practice.
This was through my college so they offered two job roles: One is software engineer and another one is consulting engineer
This was conducted in the month of August.
I couldn't get selected for next round. But I heard from my friends that there were two technical rounds, one MR round and one HR round conducted in a single day.
Overall experience was very good and even my friends opinion was the same.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Their questions were mostly on main subjects of CS and IS branches, like OS,ST,DBMS and Networks, there were two questions on Machine learning too. I remember very few,as I didn't concentrate more on mcqs, topics related to semaphore and some data structures related questions were also asked. Basically all were on subjects which were taught and all were related to fundamentals of those.
I applied through college or university. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Cisco (Indi, Karnataka) in Aug 2020
Interview
The interview was mainly focused on computer networking and since I was from EEE background I was asked questions on microcontrollers. You should have a basic knowledge in data structures and algo.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How many layers are there in the OSI model. What are their functions.
What are connection oriented and connection less protocols.
the behind the scenes of compiling a C program.
How would you delete an element from a linked list.
The architecture of a microcontroller and a microprocessor
I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Cisco
Interview
It was good, people are cool here. I was asked everything from my resume. I worked on LTE so everything was centered around that. They asked about agile too. Then gave a little problem to solve. I was asked about the difference between testing and automation.