I applied through college or university. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Cisco (San Jose, CA) in Jan 2010
Interview
I submitted my resume through Cisco.com for a Software Engineering internship position. It took about a month for them to contact me back. The recruiter called me for a phone interview, the questions were pretty easy. It's more of a review of my resume and background. I was called into an onsite interview about a week later with the hiring manager. The questions were pretty easy, I guess it was because I was applying for an internship position. He asked me basic PHP questions, how does web application works, some networking fundamentals and some design questions. Then, I was interviewed individually by the entire team and extended team. It was a pretty long 5 hours interview. The interviewer were really nice and took a lot of notes during the interviews. You should really study and prepare for the interviews in both technical and soft skills questions. They offered me the internship about two weeks later.
I applied through college or university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Cisco (San Jose, CA) in Oct 2011
Interview
There are no self-introduction part or CV questions. It went straight forward to a program analysis question, asking me to figure out all the possible errors in that program. Some are obvious syntax error. But there are some errors that are not obvious and require a sound programming foundation. There might be some other questions after this but when I failed to solve this question. The interviewer showed no further interest and stopped the interview. The 1 on 1 interview is stressful and the interviewer hope to find someone who are really experienced with programming, regardless of what programming language he / she is using.
I applied through college or university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Cisco in Sep 2011
Interview
The recruiter was really nice and he just asked a puzzle. Given 8 balls, 7 of them is 10g and the 8th one is .9g, you can use a balance scale, how can you find the lighter ball if you can use the balance scale only two times. I think the puzzle is very common. But I have not solved it during the interview. Sorry about that.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Find the only lighter ball from 8 balls using a balance scale only two times.