I applied through an employee referral. The process took 3 months. I interviewed at Cisco in May 2012
Interview
This was interview for an SE role for a specific account (service provider). I had separate interviews with SE Manager, two SEs, Regional Manager (RM), and Client Director (CD). Sales Engineers asked technical questions, whereas RM and CD mostly wanted to hear about soft skills and how would I deal with the customer.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What do you see as the main business problems of this customer, and how would you solve them?
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Cisco (Richardson, TX) in Jan 2012
Interview
First a 30 minute telephonic interview basically on overall skill match test by project manager.
Face to Face interview of about an hour, 3 rounds, each round with 2-3 team members, in total 3 hours, with about an hour lunch break.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
On data structures, algorithms, c++ language, C language, STL, multithreading, past projects.
It was a telephonic interview which lasted for an hour. Started off with behavioral questions like your experience and then few questions on OS, programming challenge on strings and a debugging question. Overall it was a good interview experience.