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      Software Engineer II Interview

      2 Nov 2016
      Anonymous employee
      San Jose, CA
      Accepted offer
      Positive experience
      Easy interview

      Application

      I applied through university. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Cisco (San Jose, CA) in Oct 2016

      Interview

      This is for Master's in CS university recruitment: 3 rounds spanning over 2 weeks (I had another offer waiting, but it seems like it can go on for up to 4 weeks if you don't rush it) 1st Interview (45 minutes): Done over WebEx (one of cisco's web conferencing tools): This was mostly behavioral; we went over my internships on my resume and some classes. It was more of a conversation rather than him drilling questions 2nd interview (45 minutes): Phone interview with hiring manager of a team. This was more technical over OO questions and data structures. Some simple questions about algorithms as well, nothing that you can't do off the top of your head. Questions were tailored based off of my resume/classes taken. 3rd Interview (1.5 hours): Done over WebEx and met with 3 different people, each 30 minutes. Technical questions varied, but no coding questions asked. They were more interested in asking about industry experience conventions ie Agile, Test driven development, and some networking questions and some audio/visual encoding questions. This might vary based off of your resume as the first thing I was asked was if I was doing real development work at my current internship (Which I was). There is a whiteboarding feature on the WebEx tool, so be prepared for some coding questions if you have the same process as me, but I believe they have an older school of thought when it comes to interviewing (they will emphasize experience first, over your ability to solve some dynamic programming question in a time frame). Overall impressions: -Go over data structures and OO (mine was C++ based so I had virtual tables, pointers and so on type questions) -If you have networking background, go over that (I did an internship with Bluetooth, so I was asked about that stack) -Review resume -Do some array based coding practice questions just in case
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