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Software Developer Interview Experience - India

June 1, 2022
Neutral ExperienceNo Offer

Process

This round was a timed test for 60 minutes and had negative marking of 50% per question. Make sure you don’t flunk until you’re very sure about the answer.

The questions in this round were in the form of cases:

  • 4 questions per case
  • 5 cases

This resulted in a total of 20 questions.

The platform for this round was HirePro, and proctoring was enabled.

Questions

Quick Sort Algorithm.

Define Operator Overloading. Define OOPS concepts. Define Inheritance in C++.

Questions relating to computer graphics (since I mentioned it in my CV).

ACID Properties in DBMS. Normalization. Some basic SQL.

Virtual Memory, Paging, Segmentation, Thrashing in OS.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 45 interview experiences for the Cisco Software Developer role in India.

Success Rate

18%
Pass Rate

Cisco's interview process for their Software Developer roles in India is very selective, failing most engineers who go through it.

Experience Rating

Positive73%
Neutral18%
Negative9%

Candidates reported having very good feelings for Cisco's Software Developer interview process in India.

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