I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Cisco in Jun 2015
Interview
First Stage is Recruiting
Second stage is for example Technical Itnerview which consists many tech questions
Than you will have alos Manager's Itnerview where you should use soft skills and so on.
so in General Interview is quit interesting
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Cisco in Dec 2014
Interview
I got my interview call via employee referral.
Two rounds of technical and one round Managerial
First round was telephonic .
Be careful of what you mention in your resume . That becomes your syllabus.
SIP protocol details and call flow. (I had VOIP mentioned in my resume , so was asked to pick protocol I am most comfortable in)
DNS doctoring
Path MTU in TCP
Fragmentation
What happens when a new switch comes up in a network
If a old firewall has been replaced with new one and internet stops working after that , how do you troubleshoot
Some more questions which I dont remember now.
Then Second round was video conference.
Tell something about yourself and work you have been doing
Describe Quality of Service
SSL handshake in detail
GRE tunnel.
FTP and its modes
What happens with active and passive ftp with nat and /or security policy.
how do you block facebook on firewall over https. What aproaches can be used.
Brief description of bgp , how are ebgp and ibgp different , how will you implement security in BGP
Authentication in BGP and done at what layer
Garp and rarp. is rarp used today . what is used instead
dhcp relay working
These are related to what I mentioned in my CV.
Managerial is simple.
I applied in-person. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Cisco in May 2014
Interview
Seven interviews including team manager and individual contributors. Management was friendly. Technical interview was dour and left interviewee with a negative impression of the technical staff. Overall experience was mid to negative. The panel interview did not seem to care if you succeeded or if they went to interview the next candidate.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Explain end to end your troubleshooting methodology from an endpoint through the corporate network to another endpoint where packets are not being delivered. Include descriptions of all available information with #show commands on the switches and routers.