I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Cisco (Atlanta, GA) in Aug 2023
Interview
Rigorous coding assessment, with increasingly harder questions. Be well prepared with Python. Leetcode is a great resource as well. Different stages of interviews as well including face-to-face chat over Teams/Zoom.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Q: Finding the outlier in an unsorted list of data through constraints.
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.