I applied through an employee referral. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Cisco (San Jose, CA) in Mar 2010
Interview
With a good referral it was a simpler process
HR phone screen
Hiring manager phone screen
on site manager interview
3 tech intervies
manager wrap up
written offer
background check
hiring
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
most "difficult" was a discussion of an IO driver, embracing merits/demerits of implementation methods, including polled v's interrupt, OS impact, buffering, layering etc