I applied through university. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Cisco in Dec 2019
Interview
It's important to go through your cv and try to drive the conversation towards your strong points.
The interview process was fairly simple and questions only revolved around my projects.
Concepts were asked of the oops, DS, Alogorithm, etc
It was of 4 rounds the same day with 1 hacker rank exam scheduled on another day.consisting of TECH , MR Round ,HR Round .You should be very clear with your networking concepts
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Networking questions and they ask about from your resume.
I applied through other source. I interviewed at Cisco (Ottawa, ON) in Dec 2025
Interview
Had one phone screen round and two technical rounds about Data structures, Regex, OOPs in Python language, and L2/L3 Networking, VLANs concepts, along with TCP/IP, OSPF, and Ethernet protocols. Was asked to debug code or, in some cases, write some logic from scratch as well.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Most of the Python Data structure questions focused on Dictionaries.
I applied online. I interviewed at Cisco (Bengaluru) in Jan 2022
Interview
It took 2 weeks to complete 3 rounds . But after that didn't get any update from the HR . 2 Technical and 1 Hiring manager round . Overall process looks good
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Mostly Java collection and data structures questions