I applied online. I interviewed at Cisco (De Zoom) in Jan 2020
Interview
Reached out on email for an initial screening interview over the phone, which was just an easy leetcode question. Overall experience was nice and everybody was really friendly. Looked like the team was a great place to work as well.
I applied online. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Cisco in Sep 2021
Interview
I interviewed for a new grad Software Engineer for backend position in Sept, 2021. I had 2 interview scheduled together (on separate days) for 1 hour each. Each interview consisted of 2-3 coding questions and system design part as well.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Distributed data aggregation and processing related scenario.
It was well laid out interview process. The recruiter contacted me with the job requirements and scheduled the interview for next week. The interview was good not too tough. One should know the fundamentals of C#, .Net Framework core, MVC, Entity Framework core. There were a couple of questions Rest APIs, HTTP methods, filtering in Rest APIs. And lastly few questions from DS on String manipulation and Arrays.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1. What are collections in C#? What are the advantages of Non-Generic collections over Generic collections?
2. What are early binding and late binding?
3. How can we implement caching at the client side for Redbus application?
4. What are various types of caching?
5. Discussion on micro-services architecure.