I applied through an employee referral. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Cisco
Interview
Two technical rounds.
One HR round.
One technical interview was over phone.
The other was in person which was mainly on scripting knowledge.
Since I was new college pass out the difficulty level was very low.
The HR round was taken by hiring manager, he just asked me about my current work at my previous organisation and he just explained me my role and responsibilities.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1) Number of bits in IP address
2) Number of bits in MAC address
3) Python script to reverse a string
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 6 days. I interviewed at Cisco in Feb 2017
Interview
Conducted a phone screen with manager. Mostly covered resume and other topics. Then came in for 4 hours of in person interviews. They were both technical and behavioral in nature. Tech questions covered language properties from languages in my resume (Java: polymorphism, inheritance, etc) Was extended an offer the next evening.
Pretty Easy interview with expected questions from networking domain. Mostly around routing protocols, SDN, L2 and coding in python. For routing, the questions were in OSPF, BGP . For L2, it was in STP, RSTP and MSTP.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Minimize routing updates in OSPF when a particular set of routes flaps.