I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Cisco in Nov 2017
Interview
I applied for Software Engineer - Masters position online and received an invitation for an online WebEx video interview after about 3 weeks. The interview ended up being audio only. The interviewer started off with a resume review followed by a coding question and an algorithm. He saw that most of my projects were in Python so he asked me to code in Python.
I felt that the main question he asked was a bit weird and could not gauge what he exactly expected. When i could not answer it completely, I was not satisfied with his answer and explanation. Received a reject after 2 days.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Q: Tell me about one of your projects
Q: Tell me about your internship
Q: What have you done in your Master's so far?
Q: What is your area of interest & why?
Q: Your are given 2 files. One with a list of keywords and the other with text. Count the occurrences of the keywords in the other text file. The other text file is extremely large, so how would you go about doing this?
Q: Merge sort
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Cisco (Atlanta, GA) in Apr 2017
Interview
Referral to the position came from a colleague and happened about 2 weeks after the application was submitted. The process ended with a generic email out of blue stating the position was awarded to a candidate more qualified. Never even received a call back from the recruiter after numerous calls. Finally received an email saying the same thing as the generic email with no further details. The process was very unprofesssional.
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Cisco (San Jose, CA) in Jul 2016
Interview
2 Step interview process. First was an on-site where I met with two people. Each one asked me about some basic Object Oriented design questions and my interest. The second was a webex interview and was the technical interview.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How would you design an AI system for a chess game?