I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Cisco (Kraków) in Apr 2022
Interview
The interview was conducted at a high level and very efficiently. It was divided into 3 parts: a code review of tasks that needed to be done beforehand, an algorithmic live coding task, and a technical and soft-skills conversation. The whole interview took about an hour. A few hours after the interview, I got a phone call with the result, and I got feedback via email on what went well and what went wrong on the interview.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What do you want to bind your future with? (here it comes to "specialization" whether backend or frontend, or maybe some data science, algorithms or something else)
Where do you see yourself in a few years?
Are the projects you do only for studies or do you do them for yourself?
Did you do projects alone or in teams? If so, in how big teams? How did you get along with each other? How did you share the work? What was it like working on your biggest project as a team.
Do you create tests for your projects? How do you test your projects? How did you test your biggest project.
How does Scrum work?
What other methodologies are you familiar with?
Have you heard of something like TDD?
What is your college situation like?
How do you see yourself after college? Do you plan on continuing your education?
Tell me about your current job, how does it work for you?
You wrote in your CV that you passed B2 English exam, what exam was it?
Got sent OA after applying 2-3 leetcode easy-medium questions. First round was a 15 minute resume rundown with 2 engineers and a object oriented style coding question that asked how to parse and filter data outputted from an API call. Second round was a traditional leetcome medium with technical hiring manager.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Got sent OA after applying 2-3 leetcode easy-medium questions. First round was a 15 minute resume rundown with 2 engineers and a object oriented style coding question that asked how to parse and filter data outputted from an API call. Second round was a traditional leetcome medium with technical hiring manager.
I just had the recruiter screen, the questions asked were basic and if you prepare well enough you don't need to worry. It was only over the phone, no zoom call, so it was a little difficult to establish a connection and therefore felt a little like an interrogation.
I interviewed at Cisco (Research Triangle Park, NC)
Interview
Started with a recruiter screen, basic questions, then OA, then a behavioral and technical (language concepts, sorting algorithms, technical background) with option for virtual and in-person. Received offer a week later.