Cisco

An employee reached out on LinkedIn. The hiring manager was located in the US. The team was distributed across all time zones. This position was for the Ottawa location. Total rounds: 5. They went deep into OS and networking concepts. DSA questions

It was an exhaustive process with five rounds. All the rounds were equally detailed against my expectations. I was expecting subsequent rounds to become tougher, but that didn't happen. **Round 1: Panel had 2 people (Sr. Engineer/Lead, I guess).**

The interview consisted of three rounds. The first was a telephonic interview, covering Java, Spring, and microservice basics. The second round focused on coding, algorithms, and data structures. The final managerial round included some technical