I applied online. I interviewed at Cisco (Bengaluru) in Sep 2022
Interview
Smooth experience, the first round was the Online Assessment, where Computer Science fundamentals were asked, along with 2 DSA questions (Medium difficulty) based on Graph, Some aptitude questions were also there. OA was followed by 4 interviews. The first three interviews were Technical interviews focused on CS fundamentals, DSA questions, OOPs etc. The last round was HR round, where they asked general questions about the company, why cisco etc.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Operating Systems, DSA Questions, OOPs, Computer Networks, etc.
I applied through college or university. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Cisco (Bengaluru) in Sep 2022
Interview
The first round was coding with mcqs. The selected candidates are called for interview(online). It started in the morning and went on for the whole day. There were 3-4 rounds in the interview.
I was asked about several basic CS principles and asked to complete three programming exercises on paper. The questions seemed to start as basic but progressively became more and more difficult.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Write a recursive loop to do….
Create a method that….
Write a short program that does….