I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Cisco in Feb 2016
Interview
easy, went through 2 rounds of interview for it. There were another 2 rounds of interview,
One tested algorithms, operating systems knowledge and general stuff.
Other round was based on resume.
Given a sentence of words and text of words separated by whitespaces, find out whether the words in the sentence occur in the text any where in any order. (All words must occur at least once for a positive test case)
Other Software Engineer Interview Reviews for Cisco
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.