They care about your skills, rather than your background. They have a template which they provide and you got to fill that, everyone is provided a unique number. You are instructed not to disclose any of your personal details in the due course of your interview.
I applied online. I interviewed at Cisco (Bengaluru) in Jun 2024
Interview
Applied via referral.
Got the link for online assessment in 2 days, it had 5 easy-medium questions to be solved in 90 mins. This followed by a hiring manager interview.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Linked list, ad-hoc math questions
In what all cases does memory leak happen
In what all cases do we get a segmentation fault
How will you determine memory leak
The interview process was two rounds. The first round was a behavioral interview. Straightforward questions, like tell me about the most technically challenging project you have worked on. The second round was a system design interview.
3 technical rounds of 35-45 mins each for a 5 years experience JS fullstack.
1. Project currently working on + design patterns employed and resume based questions in details to check the depth.
2. System design interview - asked me to mention an approach to design a microservice for retail client. Followed up by questions on why I've chosen a particular tech stack and questions on how to tackle certain situations in real word on such services (inventory + payments etc).
3. DS based test - question was bit easy.