Applied through the campus careers service. Attended the interview in Cisco Galway. The interview process was fine. They only gave me one coding problem.

They asked a lot of technical questions, most of which were on my CV. There were two separate interviews with two interviewers in each. Both lasted 45 minutes with time at the end for any questions I had. I felt it was very friendly and laid back.

If you are going for this interview, I would recommend you know your CV and the details of everything on it. The only real curveballs thrown at me were questions about Design patterns and one on server-side JavaScript (neither of which I mentioned on my CV).

Other technical questions included things like general networking questions (IP Stack, TCP, and UDP...). There was a question about threads and some Linux commands; nothing too strenuous.

Overall, it was fine. In the end, I didn't get the place and was told by the HR person I was very close but was vetoed by one of the interviewers (which I found quite strange). Overall, a good experience as it did help me feel a lot more comfortable with later interviews.

One final thing: remember to ask.

Coding question: Given a phone number, parse out the area code.