They care about your skills, rather than your background. They have a template which they provide and you got to fill that, everyone is provided a unique number. You are instructed not to disclose any of your personal details in the due course of your interview.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Cisco (Bengaluru) in Jun 2020
Interview
It was a 4-hour interview conducted by 4 members, in one hour slots each.
There were breaks in between sessions to refresh. The interview was via WebEx and covered a range of questions in data structures, algorithms, general uC, uP concepts and C programming constructs.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
- Semaphore, mutex, function pointers, dynamic memory allocation
- Memory leak/ corruption detection tools
- Linked list, Queue
- Crash detection methods
- kernel debugging
- Custom Implementation of some library functions like atoi(), strtok()
- Bit manipulation
- BST
- Common C questions
- IPC methods
- Memory layout
The interview process was two rounds. The first round was a behavioral interview. Straightforward questions, like tell me about the most technically challenging project you have worked on. The second round was a system design interview.
I applied online. I interviewed at Cisco in May 2026
Interview
Series of 4 interviews, First screening with HR Recruiter, reviewed resume and qualifications, second was hiring manager, reviewed experience and skills. Technical interview with team as a panel type interview, Last with hiring Director.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Technical questions on networking. Experience with work enviroment