I applied through an employee referral. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Cisco (San Jose, CA) in Aug 2010
Interview
Three separate interviews with engineers, manager, and directors. Each session spend about 30 minutes. Engineers will ask some technical questions. Manager and Directors will ask some experience and personality questions.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Name 10 design criteria that you used in the hardware developments
I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Cisco in Apr 2014
Interview
good.i was asked simple questions of vhdl,verilog,tcl.set-up,hold,metastability, fifo,synchronizers, etc.the person who called was a manger.he found my resume pretty apt for the position.so was keen in getting me into the team.