Process
I had four rounds of interviews with three different teams.
Each interview lasted for at least two hours and consisted of multiple technical interviews, each lasting 45 minutes with Cisco engineers.
Questions
All of the interviews were technical and consisted of asking me about one of my projects, then moving on to technical questions regarding the field, and finally a set of coding challenges.
The following are the areas in which I was asked technical questions:
- Networking
- Linux Programming
- Processes + Multithreading
- Memory Management
- General questions about C/Python
These are the coding challenges I was asked about:
- Checking the error in the code and fixing it
- Counting the number of 1's in a binary number
- Reverse order traversal of a binary tree
- How to copy a string in C
- Finding the missing number in an array when given numbers from 1 to n
Most of the coding questions were followed by some analysis and questions regarding possible errors.
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Interview Statistics
The following metrics were computed from 1 interview experience for the Cisco Software Engineer role in Qatar.
Success Rate
Cisco's interview process for their Software Engineer roles in Qatar is incredibly easy as the vast majority of engineers get an offer after going through it.
Experience Rating
Candidates reported having very good feelings for Cisco's Software Engineer interview process in Qatar.
Cisco Work Experiences
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