I had applied for the Cisco NTS Apprenticeship. I was shortlisted and underwent a first round of assessment. This consisted of basic coding problems, multiple-choice questions, and theory questions on Java. The assessment also included questions based on networking, Cisco switches, and routers.

I passed this round, and the second round was a virtual interview with a Cisco senior. They asked basic Java programming questions such as string manipulation, palindromes, arrays, and pointers.

Can you write a string? Later on, they told me to manipulate it.