I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Cisco in May 2021
Interview
30 min video call with engineer
3 30 min video calls with other engineers
ghosted on result
Questions about my experience
Lot's of technical questions in the format of "do you know this?" Seemed like an ineffective and lazy method to determine the candidate's knowledge and potential.
One of the interviews went on for 1 hour for some reason.
Ironically, no coding questions.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What is IPC?
What is RPC? (this was great, the interviewer had an accent so I was confused with the previous question)
Questions about linux kernel such as difference between block device vs character device
what is volatile keyword?
what is static keyword?
what do you want to do?
what is an interrupt? how to handle interrupt?