I applied through university. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Cisco (Mysore) in Jul 2016
Interview
on the first day, they only did company presentation and aptitude round
as their financial year was about to end, they have done only first round and informed us that the result will be out after a week. next rounds may include technical rounds and hr interview.
they are offering three different profile so eligibility for the next round may depend on the job profile.
job profiles included software engineer, IT engineer, service engineer
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
most of the aptitude questions were based on basic c, probability, electronics etc. we expected questions related to networks but as the job profile was different, we had no questions related to networks. So aptitude round also depends on the job profile.
some ec related questions were about- wire guage, half and full wave rectifier
programming- find the output and find the error
probability- ant and triangle problem, probability of picking number from 1-100 in which number remains same even after changing units place and tens palce
venn diagram problem to find the percentage of people who read only advertisement out of two types of newspaper
analog to digital converter
hash table question
if logb a= laga b, what is the relationship between a and b
some other quants questions
a question from permutation and combination- out of 5 men and 7 women a committee must be created. committee should have 5 members out of which at least 2 women must be present in a committee. but two particular women don't like each other. number of ways committee can be made which does not include those two women in the same group.
Standard panel, very simple leetcodes. reverse linked list kind of vibe s . I was literarly asked about how a linked list is structured and reversing it. there was almost no friction which I was shocked by one of the reason I did not accept
They care about your skills, rather than your background. They have a template which they provide and you got to fill that, everyone is provided a unique number. You are instructed not to disclose any of your personal details in the due course of your interview.
The interview process was two rounds. The first round was a behavioral interview. Straightforward questions, like tell me about the most technically challenging project you have worked on. The second round was a system design interview.