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Software Engineer Interview Experience - India

January 1, 2017
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Process

I received a call from HR for a weekend walk-in. Around 30 people with experience ranging from 2 to 8 years attended the walk-in.

The first round was a written test covering C, data structures, networking, and OS concepts. Approximately 10 people cleared this round.

All 10 candidates were interviewed simultaneously for the initial round, which focused on basic C questions and concepts related to arrays and strings.

The second round assessed knowledge of data structures, including stacks, queues, linked lists, and trees.

The third round involved some math puzzles and a few C programming questions.

The fourth round focused on networking concepts, such as L2/L3 protocols, and included a simple queue programming task.

The fifth round was a managerial interview, primarily concentrating on behavioral aspects.

Finally, at 5 PM, the manager informed me that I was selected and HR would be in touch.

Overall, the interview experience was good.

Questions

Queue

Binary Search Tree

Addition without using arithmetic operators

Puzzle related to math

Program for permutations of a string

Some program related to algebra concepts

L2/L3 basics

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 378 interview experiences for the Cisco Software Engineer role in India.

Success Rate

45%
Pass Rate

Cisco's interview process for their Software Engineer roles in India is fairly selective, failing a large portion of engineers who go through it.

Experience Rating

Positive71%
Neutral24%
Negative5%

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

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