There were a total of 3 virtual interviews held through their platform Webex.
First Round(With Senior QA Lead):
- No Coding Questions, Just my background, details, previous experience, the technologies and testing frameworks which I used, Why Cisco and Why this position.
Second Round(With Software Engg from San Jose HQ)
- My previous Internship experience, What is my role in the internship experience?.
- How do you design REST API's?
- 2 Coding Questions.
- First Bad Version(Leetcode)
- Best time to Buy and Sell Stocks.
Third Round(With a panel of 2, One Technical Lead and One Principal Software Engineer)
- Again a brief discussion of my background ,skills, my internship work.
- My areas of Interest and a short discussion on Distributed Systems.
- Merits and Demerits of using SQL vs NoSQL.
- Basic Discussion about what Spring Boot is (Since, I had background in Java and some projects in Spring Boot).
- Finally one design round, LRU Cache(Interviewers mentioned they were not looking for exact code, but for my thought process and how well I design my Cache).
Results: Awaited.