First had a phone screen with the manager. Then proceeded to in person interviews with three different engineers. There was a combination of general and coding questions. These were done pre-covid and in person.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Cisco (Bengaluru) in Jul 2016
Interview
I got call from Cisco HR, it took around 3 weeks. 10 rounds of interview, out of which only two last rounds were from director and vp. 8 technical rounds.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1. Develop employee management system as REST services and submit code for review (first round).
2. Design end to end a Queue management system (second round)
3. 3rd to 8th round were more towards best practices, challenges, code quality etc.
4. Director and VP round will be more towards leadership quality. What you have as leadership and why it is needed?
I applied through a staffing agency. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Cisco
Interview
Programming test in HackerRank.
Coding problem on white board or paper.
Problem Solving on white board.
Data Structures on white board or paper.
Please write at least 30 words on Hiring and Interview process.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Cisco (Bengaluru)
Interview
I was contacted by a recruiter. First round was telephonic. 2nd Round was a video conference at Hyderabad. Third interaction was F2F are Bangalore. There were 3 or 4 interviews.
After the interviews, there was silence for many days. Then, offer was made.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
They asked me about my work, challenges faced and how I helped in addressing them.