I applied online. I interviewed at Cisco (San Jose, CA) in May 2025
Interview
It is positive experience overall. First Hr call and tell about the job. Ask my experience and whether experience fit the job description. Then hire manager called, it first give overview about the company and division the product it developed. Then it go over my resume ask a few question. The technical question is about basic network concept, TCP/IP/ARP/DNS/NAT protocol etc. Then a few weeks late hr send email ask to onsite interview. It is about 4 engineers from senior level conduct technical interview.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1. Reverse a link list.
2. How to find an interger is power of 2.
3. Decribe Mac learning process.
4. Basic tcp/ip, dns, arp protocol description.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Cisco (Bengaluru)
Interview
I applied for the position and successfully attended the screening and coding round. The interview mainly focused on C programming and networking concepts, including IP subnetting, bitwise operations, and implementing logic to verify if an IP belongs to a subnet. There were also questions on TCP/UDP and debugging concepts. After the interview, I followed up with the recruiter, who shared that based on the feedback, my profile will not proceed further.
I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Cisco (Bengaluru) in Apr 2025
Interview
Telephonic discussion, 2 technical, 1 managerial round
- Standard DSA(medium difficulty)
- System Design
Discussion about past work, worked on GenAI was plus
Last 3 rounds happened in short durarion, receuiter was very open and clear on any kind of clarification asked
Overall god experience