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 4 weeks. I interviewed at Cisco in Feb 2014
Interview
The whole process was about 40 minutes on campus. Questions were all about network.
1. How to check the network? command like ping, trace route, tcpdump.
2. Given mask code to calculate feasible IPs.
3. Some easy coding problems. (sort, string reverse)
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Given mask code to calculate feasible IPs. Thought about a while.
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 Jun 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