I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Cisco in Mar 2015
Interview
I applied online via our college career portal and was called for webex interviews within a month or so. The length of the interviews were 45 minutes. There was mainly technical questions involved and nothing about my past experience or projects were asked.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
I was asked questions on
1. Routing protocols such eigrp ospf and bgp.
2. Spanning tree protocols and about trunk port modes etc
3. Basic questions about subnetting and asked few problems on the same.
4. Asked to write code on how to ssh into a cisco IOS router and extract whether an interface is up or down using any coding language of choice
5. Asked to write code on how to keep track of the number of distinct words and a count of the same from a file.
6. Debugging how a neighbouring router/switch port is alive or dead
6. Basic questions on Operating systems concepts and linked lists.
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.
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