I applied through college or university. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Cisco in Oct 2022
Interview
I felt welcome and appreciated for my abilities. I’m feeling really good about the team I’ll be working with. My resume did most of the talking, the coding questions were somewhat challenging but if you stay focused and come prepared you’ll do fine.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Do hackathons and meetups, contribute on open source repositories. Let your experiences speak for you.
Standard panel, very simple leetcodes. reverse linked list kind of vibe s . I was literarly asked about how a linked list is structured and reversing it. there was almost no friction which I was shocked by one of the reason I did not accept
They care about your skills, rather than your background. They have a template which they provide and you got to fill that, everyone is provided a unique number. You are instructed not to disclose any of your personal details in the due course of your interview.
The interview process was two rounds. The first round was a behavioral interview. Straightforward questions, like tell me about the most technically challenging project you have worked on. The second round was a system design interview.