I applied through university. I interviewed at Cisco
Interview
they came to my college and recruited candidets. after few weeks I got a call from the recruiter. she asked me to come to an interview. they were generaly nice and asked personal questions. 15 minutes they startred asking programming questions. mainly in C with restrictions on complexity.
the interview was a llite more than 2 hours.
its been few weeks since the interview and they still didn't call me back so I guess there is no offer..
Interview questions [3]
Question 1
implement malloc func that get an integer and return the malloc allocated address value aligned to that number
I applied online. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Cisco (San Francisco, CA) in Jun 2021
Interview
Applied online (no referral) for a C/C++ position. Got an email with a coderpad assessment the next day to be done in C. Took it 10 days later. 75 mins for 3 questions. I just took it so haven't heard back from them yet.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Q1: Given coordinates of queen and opponent on checkers board, see if queen can make a valid move against opponent (up, down, both diagonals).
Q2: Rotate a 2D matrix "90 degrees" to the right. Rows are equal to columns.
Q3: Given a 1D list, return the difference between the smallest and largest number. The smaller number MUST occur in the list before the largest one. If smallest is after largest, it's invalid.
It tells you it's better to pass the two test cases even if time is not optimized.