I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Cisco (Ottawa, ON) in Jan 2017
Interview
Phone interview, followed by on-site 7 interviews during first day, starting with hiring manager, director level, and five engineers . HR phone call and offer in 2 days after interview
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
SW engineering questions, from basic to advanced C programming
I applied through university. I interviewed at Cisco (Bengaluru) in Jul 2021
Interview
2 Rounds of interview
Simple programming questions.
Embedded system questions.
General system level concepts.
Some general puzzles.
Processor architecture questions.
Fundamentals of computer organisation.
General HR questions
Experience related questions
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Cisco (Tel Aviv-Yafo) in May 2021
Interview
First technical interview -
Talked about the company and the positions, my experience and interests.
Second interview - talked more deeply of my projects in school and previous work place, got reeeaall deep into details.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
experience and interests.
several simple questions like - what is a deadlock (describe an example) , what is a singelton (implement it), what is abstract class. Then several networking questions - are you farmiliar with the OSI layers, difference between ACL and FW, what happens when you type a URL (DNS explaining followed by HTTPS way of work). eventually a simple coding questions - finding the number of overlaping characters between 2 input strings.