I applied through college or university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Cisco (Pilani) in Aug 2016
Interview
The interview rounds were smooth. I cleared the written test round and went through for technical. I had 2 technical rounds which were more in line with software development and had questions from Data Structures and Algos. The questions mainly revolved around strings and a little bit of hashing as well. I answered the questions well. But I could not go through to the HR round.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Find the longest palindromic substring of a given string
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.