I applied through an employee referral. The process took 5 days. I interviewed at Cisco (Milpitas, CA) in Jan 2016
Interview
Refer by friends, took 1 month start phone interview about basic programming question and GBD, then onsite interview with 5 people at following Monday, lots of question about link list and OS.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Write code to reverse a link list.
Tell the different between malloc and calloc
Standard panel, very simple leetcodes. reverse linked list kind of vibe s . I was literarly asked about how a linked list is structured and reversing it. there was almost no friction which I was shocked by one of the reason I did not accept
They care about your skills, rather than your background. They have a template which they provide and you got to fill that, everyone is provided a unique number. You are instructed not to disclose any of your personal details in the due course of your interview.
The interview process was two rounds. The first round was a behavioral interview. Straightforward questions, like tell me about the most technically challenging project you have worked on. The second round was a system design interview.