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      Software Engineer II Interview

      6 Sept 2016
      Anonymous employee
      Bengaluru
      Accepted offer
      Positive experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Cisco (Bengaluru)

      Interview

      Was referred by my friend, interview process nearly took 1 n half months, rounds were as following : 1. Hacker rank test 2. Face to face interview (4 technical and 1hr). Office place was too good, they offered a lot of refreshments in between the interview, after the hr round they took me for lunch, which was amazing.

      Interview questions [4]

      Question 1

      Round 1: 1.Merge sort and derive the complexity 2.Difference between interface and abstract class. 3.create a immutable class. 4. Difference between array list and link list and there use cases. 5.Create a meeting room class.
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      Question 2

      Round 2 1 . types of locking in threads 2. Program to print a number in an array only if sum of two numbers are present in array 3.Program to find a number in two dimensional arrays such that rows and column are both sorted.
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      Question 3

      Round 3 Much about project and day to day activity in previous company.
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      Question 4

      Round 4 Manager round asked about agile and some technical stuff related to networking.
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