I applied in-person. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Cisco (Bengaluru) in Oct 2010
Interview
For screening they conduct a written test 50 Questions in total, 20 Aptitude types and 30 Engineering.
In this 30 Questions 60% Electronics, and 40% in CS.
After that 3 F2F Technical Interviews and 1 HR Interview.
They will ask about your Projects.
C,(In Depth)
Data Structure(Mainly Trees and Linked List)
Algorithm(Basic)
OS(Baiscs More than Average.)
Networking (Basics College Level)
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Where is string constants stored in Memory?
Ex: char * a = "Hello" ;
The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Cisco (Milpitas, CA) in Mar 2010
Interview
I had two phone interviews (one including the manager). After a week and a half, I was invited to have an onsite interview. The onsite interview consisted of 6 one-on-one meetings with members from the team including members from other teams (which included a hardware perspective and architecture perspective). Once the on-site interview was complete, I was told they were interested and they asked what amount I was looking for.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How would you approach updating a code-base to support 64-bit?
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Cisco (San Jose, CA) in May 2011
Interview
Applied online.
Initial phone screening for 2.5 hrs. Discussions involving OS concepts, DS, algorithms, resume based projects, some amount of behavioral.
Scheduled second round involving a series of 4 webex interviews on the same day.