Software Engineer Interview Experience - Ottawa, Canada
January 1, 2016
Positive ExperienceNo Offer
Process
The interview took place in Ottawa.
The interviewer was very positive, and the questions were fully technical, mostly on C data structures.
The questions included:
- How to remove an element from a doubly linked list.
- How to add an element to a singly linked list.
- What networking protocols do you know?
- Explain how the internet works.
- Mutexes.
- Semaphores.
It was a long but friendly interview.
Questions
Doubly linked list, networking protocols, pointers, stacks
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Interview Statistics
The following metrics were computed from 25 interview experiences for the Cisco Software Engineer role in Ottawa, Canada.
Success Rate
24%
Pass Rate
Cisco's interview process for their Software Engineer roles in Ottawa, Canada is very selective, failing most engineers who go through it.
Experience Rating
Positive52%
Neutral40%
Negative8%
Candidates reported having very good feelings for Cisco's Software Engineer interview process in Ottawa, Canada.
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