I applied through college or university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Cisco (Marmagao) in Feb 2015
Interview
1. Online test consisting of C, OS, Electronics, Networks etc.
2. F2F Interview
3. F2F interview
The interviewers were arrogant. I was a chemical engineering graduate. Technically I wasn't allowed to sit for their process, but they allowed me to. During interview they didn't even ask me any technical questions, even after I cleared the test. They told me to wait outside even when I knew they were going to reject me. I waited 4 hours for the result I already knew and interviewer suggested.
I applied in-person. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Cisco (San Jose, CA) in Jun 2013
Interview
Technical interview by 5 different members of the team. Mostly technical - Algos, data structures, C programming, OS, networks. Many questions were asked related to what I have worked on so far.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Q: Deadlocks, mutex & semaphores
Q: Implement a stack using Queues
Q: Difference between threads & processes
I applied through college or university. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Cisco (San Jose, CA) in Apr 2012
Interview
Onsite + 2 telephonic. Basics of data structure. Lots MCQs on C programming. Bit maniplation. Clean and bug free code in C during interviews. You are expected to write clean C code in those interviews. Basics of linked List and Binary search trees. Searching and sorting.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Not to be disclosed ! C operating systems basic. Paging, virtual memory questions. Bit manipulation questions.
1: Generalized linked list traversal
2: Find the number is power of 2 or not
3: Linked list deletion
4: Networking basic questions.
5: Sorting methods and complexities.