Cisco Interview Experience

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.

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