The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Cisco in Oct 2010
Interview
I interned with Cisco for 2 summers and then moved to another company to broaden my experience. The interview below was for a full-time position. There was supposedly only one round, after which you either got an offer or you didn't.
1) I spoke with a recruiter at a campus recruiting event. On looking at my resume, he was immediately sour (and even rude) at the fact I chose not to do a 3rd consecutive internship with Cisco. Nonetheless, he invited me to a 1:1 interview the next day.
2) The interview was with the same recruiter I spoke to the day before. All questions were behavioral ("tell me about a time when..."), except for one where he told me to give him a sample SQL statement. He kept mentioning that his boss told him to come back with an "unlimited number of candidates to give offers to".
3) A few days later, I got an email saying "thank you for applying, but Cisco is not interested".
Overall a very negative experience, but mostly a function of the arrogant and unprofessional recruiter I happened to get paired with. Probably could have gone quite differently depending on the interviewer.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
What is the harshest, but best piece of criticism you ever received?
Questions on DSA and basic Operating Systems and networking questions. Also, there was a behavioral round that covered all from my resume and gave to situations to respond accordingly. I got the interview call through GHC and it had only 2 interviews
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Questions on DSA and basic Operating Systems and networking questions.
I successfully completed the online assessment, demonstrating proficiency in all questions and test cases. However, there has been no communication or update on the interview process from the company since.