The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Cisco (Milpitas, CA) in Mar 2010
Interview
I had two phone interviews (one including the manager). After a week and a half, I was invited to have an onsite interview. The onsite interview consisted of 6 one-on-one meetings with members from the team including members from other teams (which included a hardware perspective and architecture perspective). Once the on-site interview was complete, I was told they were interested and they asked what amount I was looking for.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How would you approach updating a code-base to support 64-bit?
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.
3 technical rounds of 35-45 mins each for a 5 years experience JS fullstack.
1. Project currently working on + design patterns employed and resume based questions in details to check the depth.
2. System design interview - asked me to mention an approach to design a microservice for retail client. Followed up by questions on why I've chosen a particular tech stack and questions on how to tackle certain situations in real word on such services (inventory + payments etc).
3. DS based test - question was bit easy.