I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Cisco (Austin, TX) in Apr 2016
Interview
I've interviewed for Cisco many times. Sometimes I've gotten a job offer, sometimes I haven't. This review is about a time I didn't. The interview process took place over 2 days and consisted of four, one-hour video conference sessions with the team manager, the tech lead, the team members and then again the team manager. Live coding was accomplished by sharing my desktop and writing in pseudo code.
I did make it to the final round, and we did discuss salary although it ended up being much less than I was expecting.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1. Given a 4x4 array, traverse it in a clockwise spiral pattern as shown below.
Given:
1 2 3 4
5 6 7 8
9 10 11 12
13 14 15 16
Solution: 1 2 3 4 8 12 16 15 14 13 9 5 6 7 11 10
2. Solve for a NxN array
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.