Cisco Interview Experience (Off-Campus) 2022

Roles Offered: Software Engineer(Network/Embedded/Application Development)

Round 1: Online Assessment: It was conducted on Hackerrank and the duration of the test was 1.5 hours.

• There were some medium-level aptitude questions.
• And some medium-level Computer fundamentals-based questions.
• There were 2 coding questions:
  • To calculate a number of patterns in a given string.
  • Application of Knapsack problem

Round 2:Technical Interview I:  After a month I received a mail that I had cleared the first round. Only 2 students were selected from our college. It was conducted on Webex.

• What is Function overloading? Write a program.
• What is Operation overloading? Write a program.
• Write a program to calculate XOR.
• Write any sorting algorithm in C.
• What is Page’s fault?
• Difference between IP address and MAC address.

After an hour I got to know I was selected for the next round and the interview was conducted immediately.

Round 3:Technical Interview II (Managerial Round):

• Explain your project
• He gave me a code snippet and asked me to trace it.
• Difference between TCP and UDP. Does Webex use TCP or UDP?
• How do you stop a process in OS using hardware?
• Explain how the web works to a layman.

After an hour I got to know I was selected for the next round.

Round 4; HR Round:

• Tell me about yourself
• What do you know about Cisco?
• Why do you wanna join Cisco?
• Do you have any questions?

Verdict: Rejected

Tips: Be calm and composed, accept your rejections, and consider them as steps to uplift yourselves

Thanks for Reading this, ALL the BEST 🙂

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