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      Principal Engineer Interview

      11 Mar 2012
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Declined offer
      Positive experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I applied through an employee referral. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Cisco in Oct 2011

      Interview

      Initially Cisco manager called me for a phone screening via' email exchanges and called on time for a 20 mins technical evaluation. Later heard from recruiter who sent me agenda for the onsite interview. 6 people interviewed me varying from senior engineers, leads, manager and the director. All were very technical and grilled me in depth on my Linux and virtualization experience. It was a interesting mix of technical and problem (analytical) problem skills questions. Interview went very well as I expected.

      Interview questions [2]

      Question 1

      How do you debug a data corruption problem in network driver developer
      1 Answer

      Question 2

      What are you leaving your current job?
      1 Answer

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      Application

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      Question 1

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      Answer question