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Cisco Systems Software Engineer II Interview
Posted Aug 18, 2009 2009-08-18 14:22 PDT — 1 of 1 people found this helpful
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Interviewed Aug 2007 in San Jose, CA (took 2 weeks)
1 hour phone interview. Topics were on Network concepts, Resume, projects, Operating system basics, Data structures, Algorithms and others. Overall understanding of network concepts would be helpful to clear the phone interview. Onsite interview would be all day long with 5-6 individual 1 hour interviews.
Interview Questions
How would you define bit fields in C?
What are the common IPC techniques in UNIX?
What is the difference between micro-kernel and macro-kernel?
Briefly explain the need for memory protection
Why do we need POSIX standards?
Thread synchronization and critical sections
Instruction pipelining
TCP connection establishment and tear down process
MIPS architecture and need for RISC processors in Embedded environment
C questions to check familiarity with pointer arithmetic.
Other Details
I got the interview through an Employee Referral and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Background Check.
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