I applied through college or university. The process took 4 months. I interviewed at Cisco (Dallas, TX) in Sep 2016
Interview
Cisco has a pathetic interview process. It has been more than 50 days since my second interview but I haven't yet heard back. HR is also not replying. I got a call from career fair in my school. The first interview was scheduled the next day face to face with one of their engineers. This was technical interview. One month after this interview I got call for another interview. Second interviewer was some Manager and this was behavioral interview - standard HR questions. After this I got an email which said that my applications is under consideration. I haven't heard back from them after that. I don't understand why do these guys hire recruiters if all the interview process is so miserable and poor.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
Given a list of strings find the common prefix. e.g. -> (Cots, Cot, Cotton, coterminal) Ans: cot
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Cisco (Montreal, QC) in Dec 2016
Interview
I applied online, then after 1 month I was contacted by recruiter via Email for a telephonic interview. The phone interview was conducted by Webex (Cisco's video conference tool) with 3 interviewers. The telephonic interview was not difficult. First they introduced their teams and work then asked some questions about the projects on my resume. Then they asked some technical questions. The last question was a easy coding problem with shared screen. Two days latter, I was informed for the second round half-day interview.
I applied through college or university. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Cisco (San Jose, CA) in Oct 2016
Interview
This is for Master's in CS university recruitment:
3 rounds spanning over 2 weeks (I had another offer waiting, but it seems like it can go on for up to 4 weeks if you don't rush it)
1st Interview (45 minutes): Done over WebEx (one of cisco's web conferencing tools): This was mostly behavioral; we went over my internships on my resume and some classes. It was more of a conversation rather than him drilling questions
2nd interview (45 minutes): Phone interview with hiring manager of a team. This was more technical over OO questions and data structures. Some simple questions about algorithms as well, nothing that you can't do off the top of your head. Questions were tailored based off of my resume/classes taken.
3rd Interview (1.5 hours): Done over WebEx and met with 3 different people, each 30 minutes. Technical questions varied, but no coding questions asked. They were more interested in asking about industry experience conventions ie Agile, Test driven development, and some networking questions and some audio/visual encoding questions.
This might vary based off of your resume as the first thing I was asked was if I was doing real development work at my current internship (Which I was). There is a whiteboarding feature on the WebEx tool, so be prepared for some coding questions if you have the same process as me, but I believe they have an older school of thought when it comes to interviewing (they will emphasize experience first, over your ability to solve some dynamic programming question in a time frame).
Overall impressions:
-Go over data structures and OO (mine was C++ based so I had virtual tables, pointers and so on type questions)
-If you have networking background, go over that (I did an internship with Bluetooth, so I was asked about that stack)
-Review resume
-Do some array based coding practice questions just in case