I got shortlisted for an interview at CISCO for SDE position and just finished my interview 30 min before writing this post.
Background- 3+ yoe, Btech ECE
First round was a phone screen round with the Hiring manager at Cisco. It was a resume-based deep dive. I was asked to deeply explain about the products I have worked on and the tech stack they use. My familiarity with the job requirement's tech and some overview of the team, work-culture and product I interviewd for.
There will be two coding rounds:
- DSA round
- DSA + system design round
I have only appeared for round 1. The interview started with the discussion on my resume and more deep-dive to resume based projects and tech. I was asked some theory questions too, like-
- What is the difference between SSH and TLS.
- Inner join vs Outer join in databases.
- Transactions and its uses in databased (explained ACID properties here).
The coding question I was asked was a Leetcode medium difficulty question. I am posting the question I was asked below-
https://leetcode.com/problems/maximum-subarray/description/
I am moving forward to the second round of interview too. I will update this post later.
[Update 1] Round 2 - Coding round
This was again a coding round and focussed more on Golang(since its a go dev role) syntax, goroutines, unbuffered and buffered channels, mutex, waitgroups, etc.
was asked to write a Fibonacci program in go using channels and go routines. Was asked a few more resume-based questions as well.
Round 3 - Managerial round
Discussions about project, tech stack, daily requirements and role expections.
The feedback was positive.
[Update] Eventhough the HM feedback was positive as he mentioned in the Managerial round, they decided to move forward with a more experienced candidate who has direct experience with the tech stack they were using. I was not offered the job.