Applied with a referral. Received the online assessment shortly after applying. Passed all the test cases, but got no response. I’ve heard from others that the OA is automatically given to every applicant.
I applied through university. The process took 5 days. I interviewed at Cisco in Sept 2012
Interview
I got this interview in the university career fair. I talked to a PM and he gave me a interview on the next day. It was an on-campus 1:1 interview. The interview was around 50 minutes.
In the first 30 minutes, he went through my resume and asked questions regarding my past experience. He asked me to describe some of my course projects. He also asked a couple of general CS questions, like whys is Java preferred than C in application development. I think I did very well in these questions.
For the rest of the interview, he gave me two coding problems. The first one is simple: count the number of "1"s in a binary expression of a 32-bit integer. The second on is as below. I did not figure out, partially because there was not enough time.
I heard back within a week.
Generally, the questions are not difficult to answer if well prepared.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Write a multithread program to simulate traffic light (only green or red) in a four-way intersection.
Nice Interview, was mostly technical with networking questions followed by basic bit manipulation and linked list questions like inverting a linked list to start from back to front to make an inverted linked list.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Cisco (San Jose, CA) in June 2024
Interview
For the internship, there are two rounds
- Online assessment from hackerrank, contains 3 leet code problems with easy and medium difficulty
- Technical interview with manager for the team you will be working. Went for about an hour. General questions and then technical questions for the domain you will be working and basic networking realted questions
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Asked a few techical questions based on my NLP project