I applied through college or university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Cisco (San Jose, CA) in Nov 2010
Interview
I was scheduled an interview in my first semester.
Interview was really good. Mainly stressed on the academics. Lots of questions in Operating systems:
1. what are threads?
2. What is the difference between multi-programming and multi-tasking.
3. Virtual Memory
4. Distributed systems.
Algorithms:
1. Whats the difference between greedy and divide & conquer approach.
Networks:
1. What are VLAN?
2. DHCP
3. TCP-Congestion control
4. Questions on application suitable for UDP.
5. Sliding window protocols.
Finally:
Why Cisco?
What do you know about Cisco products?
Who are the competitors?
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
Technical Q: On operating systems-Threads, VM, Multiprogramming, Distr OS
Networks: VLAN, NAT, TCP, UDP