The interview process typically involves multiple stages to assess technical skills, problem-solving abilities, and cultural fit.

The process often begins with a recruiter screening to evaluate your resume, experience, and basic technical knowledge.

If successful, you might be given a technical assessment. This could include coding exercises, system design problems, or debugging challenges.

You'll likely have one or more technical interviews with Cisco engineers. These sessions delve deeper into your technical skills, problem-solving approach, and how you apply theoretical knowledge to real-world scenarios.

For more senior roles, there might be a system design interview.

Q. Given an array of integers and a target sum, find all pairs that add up to the target.

Q. Find the length of the longest increasing subsequence of a given array of integers.

Q. Given n non-negative integers representing an elevation map, compute how much water it can trap after raining.

Q. Given a set of coin denominations, determine the number of ways to make a certain amount of change.

Q. Partition a string into the minimum number of palindromic substrings.