I applied through college or university. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Cisco
Interview
It was good. It was completely coding based for me. Nothing was asked from my resume. They asked me two questions. 1. All permutations of a string. 2. First and last occurrence of a number in a sorted array
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
All permutations of a string. First and last occurrence of a number in a sorted array
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Cisco (San Jose, CA) in Sep 2021
Interview
Two 1 hour technical video interviews. They asked fairly typical algorithmic questions like binary search and linked list operations. There was time before and after to talk about my resume and ask questions.
I applied online. I interviewed at Cisco (Bengaluru) in Nov 2021
Interview
1st round - Online assessment: 3 leetcode medium problems.
2nd round is a phone screen round when they evaluated me on Java basics, Springboot, microservices and Saga design pattern
3nd round is a technical round. They asked questions on data processing using java 8 streams and collectors and Design pattern questions
4th round is a technical round. They asked 2 medium leetcode questions
5th round is a techno-managerial round. Few behavioural questions followed by a Systems design question involving microservices.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Inheritance in Java
Interfaces and abstract classes
distributed transactions and Saga design pattern
Spring cloud config server and refreshscope
find top nth salary in sql
Data processing using streams and collectors
Observer design pattern
Find first most frequent character in a string
Merge two sorted stacks
Distributed cache
Consumer group