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Sep 2, 2023

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Neutral experience

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Application

I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Cisco (San Jose, CA) in Aug 2023

Interview

Technical assessment was 3 leetcode style questions, 1 easy, 1 medium, 1 hard. 1.) Find median and mode of a list of integers 2.) find palindrome that is a substring in a string 3.) 2D matrix problem, find largest number in a row that has the smallest number in a column

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Software Engineer Interview

Sep 2, 2023

Anonymous Interview Candidate

No offer

Negative experience

Difficult interview

Application

I applied online. I interviewed at Cisco (Bengaluru) in Aug 2023

Interview

Technical Round: No intro, directly asked about my projects, asked my preferred programming language but denied to ask question in that language. The interviewer was in a hurry, asked a simple dsa question, but made an environment where I couldn't solve it.

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Question 1

Write a program in C to open a text file and run the code from that file.

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Question 2

Linux commands for file handling

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Software Engineer Interview

Aug 31, 2023

Anonymous Interview Candidate

No offer

Positive experience

Difficult interview

Application

I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Cisco (Atlanta, GA) in Aug 2023

Interview

Rigorous coding assessment, with increasingly harder questions. Be well prepared with Python. Leetcode is a great resource as well. Different stages of interviews as well including face-to-face chat over Teams/Zoom.

Interview questions [1]

Question 1

Q: Finding the outlier in an unsorted list of data through constraints.

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