I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Cisco (Xangai, Xangai) in Jul 2012
Interview
A headhunter contacted me about a position for Cisco and asked me if I have any interest in it. Since it's a position working for cloud solutions that I wanna try, so I submitted my CV to him. After several days, I was invited by the hiring manager for a whole day interview. The interview was not that hard, just normal questions about linux, networking and developing skills. After that, I was invited to Cisco again for interviews with 4 different people. Still questions similar to last interview.
I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Cisco in Jan 2011
Interview
phone interview is followed by onsite interview. onsite interview contains questions from computer science algorithm books. for j2ee positions, j2ee component based questions are asked.