I applied through an employee referral. The process took 3 days. I interviewed at Cisco (San Jose, CA) in Nov 2011
Interview
got the interview through a referral. the interview process consisted of a technical onsite interview with five people.
First interviewer was very thorough and went through everything on my resume and asked me many questions on extra activities and not on coursework.
Second interview was a skills test and comprised of questions like diffrence between a mutex and semaphore. which data structure to use in what situation etc.
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.
Application
I interviewed at Cisco (Bengaluru)
Interview
3 technical rounds of 35-45 mins each for a 5 years experience JS fullstack.
1. Project currently working on + design patterns employed and resume based questions in details to check the depth.
2. System design interview - asked me to mention an approach to design a microservice for retail client. Followed up by questions on why I've chosen a particular tech stack and questions on how to tackle certain situations in real word on such services (inventory + payments etc).
3. DS based test - question was bit easy.