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Cisco Systems Interview Experience for SDE (On-Campus)

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CISCO visited our campus to hire a Software Engineer and consultant Engineer for Intern+FTE. The recruitment drive consisted of 4 Rounds :

ROUND 1: ONLINE ASSESSMENT ROUND: There were 27 Questions having 25 MCQs and 2 Coding Questions. MCQs contain questions from OS, OOPs, Mathematical Aptitude, and the majority of Computer Networks.

ROUND 2: TECHNICAL INTERVIEW (Mode: Online, Duration: 50 Minutes, 2 Interviewers: 25 minutes each) :

  • This round started with questions on my projects. I had 3 projects on ML, DBMS, and Front End. They asked me everything about Project.
  • First, they asked me about ML Project
  • Tell me about your projects.
  • Why ML for this project?
  • Technologies used for the project?
  • What is Regression?
  • Explain Linear Regression.
  • What is the R-squared score?
  • Why Django?
  • About Sci-kit learn
  • DBMS Project
  • Tell me about your 2nd project.
  • What is the difference between primary key and foreign key?
  • Have you used foreign keys in your project?
  • What are Joins explain?
  • Explain Left Outer Join.
  • They gave me a problem statement and asked me to explain E-R and its schema.
  • What is schema?
  • Asked me about DCL commands Indirectly.
  • DSA
    • They gave me a problem statement, I had to tell which data structure I preferred to use and why?
    • Approach to reverse a linked list?
    • Asked me about time and space complexity for that and asked me to improvise it.
  • CN
    • What is the function of the Transport Layer?
    • What do you know about DNS?
    • In detail on DNS.
  • Question from my side
    • Experience and work culture in cisco.
    • What technologies should I be aware of before joining as an intern?

ROUND 3: TECH + MANAGERIAL INTERVIEW :

  • Tell me about your projects.
  • Overview of DBMS Project.
  • What are the entities and keys used in your project?
  • What all things do you know about RDBMS?
  • What is the difference between Unique and Primary Keys?
  • Find the middle element of an array in one pass.
  • Questions from my side
    • What kept you on going starting as a fresher to manager in this field?
    • What difference did you find between DevOps from traditional methods?
    • What technologies should I be aware of before joining as an intern?

ROUND 4: ETR :

  • Introduce yourself.
  • What do you know about Cisco?
  • Who are the competitors of Cisco?
  • Are you planning to higher studies?
  • Are you ready to relocate?
  • My teamwork experience.
  • No Questions from my side.

VERDICT: SELECTED

Final Tips:

  • Make sure you know every tiny detail about your project because you will be asked to explain all your projects in both rounds 2 and 3.
  • Don’t fake anything in the resume.
  • Keep something to eat with you as the recruitment process started at 8:30 in the morning and went till 6:30 in the evening.
  • Be calm, and confident, Keep a smile.

Last Updated : 13 Oct, 2022
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