Cisco Interview Experience (On-Campus) 2023

Cisco visited our college to hire students for Internships and full-time roles.

• Three roles were there and you have to fill your preference while starting the OA.
• The roles were: Software Engineer, Data Engineer, and Site Reliability Engineer.
• Based on the scores you’ll be assigned the roles for the interview round if selected.

Round 1:

It consisted of only 2 sections.

There were 41 questions in total.

1. First Section: It comprised 40 multiple choice questions (MCQs) that covered topics like OOPS, SQL, CN, OS, and aptitude. The level of difficulty was intermediate.
2. Second Section: It came up with 1 coding question to solve. You can select any language of your choice for writing the code. We just had 3 languages C, Java, and Python. Compared to coding questions from other firms, the questions were quite difficult.

Out of 600-800 people who had the first round, around 30 of them got the selection for the second round.

4 got selected for Data Engineer, 7-8 for Site Reliability Engineer, and 15-18 for Software Engineer.

Round 2: [Technical Round]

Data Engineer the questions revolved around DBMS. Most of them were asked to write queries. For the Software Engineering role, they focused everything whether it be your projects, data structures, or your core subjects. Even for the Software Engineering role, people were asked to write queries.

Round 3: [Managerial Round]

This round focused more on your behavioral skills. You’ll be asked scenario-based questions. Few were asked to write queries in this round as well. Core subjects are never out of tradition. You’ll be asked a few follow-up questions on your core as well.

4 people were selected for the ETR Connect Round.

Round 4: [ETR Connect]

The interviewer asked some basic questions, and job location preferences and told a few things about the job role. Further, they asked if we had any queries or questions to ask.

Finally, they selected 2 people for the Software Engineering role, 1 for Data Engineer.