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Cisco Interview Experience | How to crack Cisco

Ashish Kumar · 2,514 words · 13 min read · EN-ORIG

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So hi everyone. Today we have a special guest on the channel. We have Retik with us. So Rik would you like to introduce yourself once? Hi as you guys already know me I am Retik and I currently work at Cisco at software engineer load and it has been great working at Cisco. Thanks. Nice man. Nice. So like he said

he's working as a software engineer at Cisco and in this video we'll be getting to know his entire journey to cracking Cisco. What he prepared, what was his interview experience like and everything in between. So Ritik would you like to start us off with your interview experience like what was the process like how many rounds were there what all

happened like uh interview like basically I was hired in Cisco through code with Cisco this is a hackathon program that they conduct every year so like it was such like uh like uh a mail came from a TPO site that this is a hackathon this is open for all so since uh you don't know my branch I was from

civil so I was not allowed like Cisco that year also allowed us for the campus placement but I did fill the form for that code with Cisco with my friends because I was staying in summer in the host with three of my friends. So we planned together we filled the form and we prepare for the interview in the

course of Cisco. First we had an interview three questions were asked. So like first one was like it was DP like one was medium and two were hard I guess. So we were able to solve two questions out of them. We didn't able to solve like the third one. So we didn't get a like on call like Bangalore. We

didn't get a Bangalore invite. So we lost our hope all our hope there. Then when Cisco came to our campus, we were not allowed to sit for the campus uh uh what do you say online assessment. We asked our TPO that what is the matter. So they told us that the people who had

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given this code exam are not allowed here. they will have a they will have a again interview like again call again online assessment after afterward was that so like when all the hiring process ended at our college after a week we got a mail that there's another online assessment only for the people who were

at Kisco so then that happened we gave we were again asked like two questions this was only two questions asked and uh it was like first was a medium like it was happy numbers like advanced happy numbers I guess and other one was some DP maze problem like collecting apples in two images connected two images and

in the sort something like that so we were able to solve like both the questions first one was very easy second was like we took some time and also there was a questions so apt we don't know like it's gone slow so we uh did it and like it uh we got uh selected for

the interview then we had a webex All like it was a round of uh 1 2 3 four four interviews were there. All the 45 minutes. The last one was only a 15 20 minutes which had the HR kind of thing. So in the first round we had a like DSA a normal DSA question was asked and

normal uh my intro related to my projects. This was a normal project. Basically DSA was concerned and only one question was asked for me. Uh it was like two sum two sum. Yeah it was by two sum. do some other all the approaches. So it was easy round. The second round was a bit project based. So they asked

me to tell me more about my project and like uh like they ask some advanced stuff of the project. Then like it was all project based like uh also yeah in my college days I had mentioned a achievement that uh every day we have a like Cisco cubator we have Cisco cuber in our college so I had participated in

that Cisco cuberator and I won uh like uh some merits uh award there so they asked me about that. So it was like basically what is this? It's like a prototype of your product like whatever startup a little startup. So we had some kind of ideas that we ped in and we made

a prototype video plus a prototype demo app. So we ped in that. So that was a normal like so they asked me also about that. I guess that also helped me a little in that uh collection. Maybe in the third round it was uh also executive round. So in that round it was I

remember like they asked me core concepts of C++, C, Java basically the skills that I mentioned on my resume. So that was focus more like difference between classes, different kinds of classes, oops that all if I remember and then again like this time they picked one of my projects told me to for the

project from my GitHub clone asked me to run a feature of that project and then like uh ask further network related question. Basically my project was a um uh group where gamers can come and post their videos, their images and also we had a future plan to stream our video there and we were als there were one

more futures that we can connect people of our rank. Basically in rank game we need people of our rank. So they asked me the logic of all that in that uh third round. So it was actually a very project intensive round but uh like more extensive than the last second round and in the in the later half of

that interview they also asked me situational questions HR based questions all that thing. So this was the first three rounds. The last round was pretty simple like it was mostly about a simple HR questions like why you want to join Cisco. These are very common like we already had gone to the lead code uh

discussion section. Yeah. So that was most of the questions from there only. So we had all the questions beforehand. So it was easy like fourth round are easy and actually we didn't know that uh we actually thought that if you get to the fourth round you are done you get selected but it was not the case. I asked my TPR

friend he told me that this is not the case. So many people have got the fourth round invitation. So you have to wait. So I guess it was 2 days after that on 19th of September. So so that day the results was announced to the TPO. They send it to me. So that

was the whole interview experience of how I get to Cisco. So like all the rounds were eliminator. Ah yeah all the rounds were

eliminator. Okay.

Oh, so like I started preparing for like software experience uh at the end of like it was like January I was in my second year and it was like uh it was mostly like fourth semester because I got to know because uh like uh for interview for interns company will start come at the starting of third

semester. So I started before like 6 months before in January. Uh from there firstly I followed like sty the playlist we all know that then goed yeah meanwhile like I was also distracted by other that time love was also getting famous so I did try to watch his video but I didn't because I was watching and they

both had different state so I so I preferred not hating on but still So uh then again for DSA for I picked style only and uh what we have other than DSA core that core computing concepts we have like two uh great prof professors at our college and I also have some friends there who studied in like CSC

branch. So I asked notes from them. So it was very helpful there also for networking core concepts, JavaScript core concepts and other like uh fundamental core concept. I we have little little uh uh notes at driver site only. I don't I don't know how this sites look uh take you forward. So I

don't know how this looks right now but before one year one and a half year they have little notes for networking. So for networking I prefer that and also my teachers my professor's notes and also like deep diving into them like if I do not understand anything I will just go into the web watch a video watch read

some books so that was a thing and uh for DBMS yeah for DBMS I watched labub's DBMS that was great so I would recommend that and for oops oops I study like from nodes only I practices from GFG uh they like those were my Main sites for app again GFG top 30 puzzles, top 50

puzzles. I used to solve those in my classrooms before sitting at the back. And uh what else are remaining like was it cover all for interview? Yeah, for like for like interview prep, we had like uh I got like really some helpful seniors and some helpful batchments. So we what we used to do uh first we when

everything was ready before 1 month before the inter full-time placement will start uh were going to start what we used to do we used to uh like uh run after every senior not every but those seniors who are already got placed in have then we used to like set up a meeting a 1 hour mock meeting with them.

So, so they were like that was a real simulation of what we had in interview because they already faced that and like those seniors really tapped it up like we they ask real super hard questions and then like uh assess us like on our technical skills, how we speak, how we give our intro, how those all things and

also in our college we have uh SMP student mentorship program. So they also conducted mock placements rounds in college. How to give your intro, how to prepare resume. We have this uh so all those things college also helped us a lot. Plus mainly it was my friends like they were already preparing for so they

helped me a lot in that. So so I guess this was all in all how I like prepared. So uh other than that uh I didn't do anything extra like I didn't paid anything anywhere. So that is the thing. So yeah, I really like that key. You had a good relationship with seniors and I think

that is something that not a lot of people follow. Seniors are pretty much the best resources you have in college because they have already gone through what you are going through, right? So always have good relationship with seniors. They'll tell you how to prepare. They'll tell you what to do and best case they might also give you a

referral. Yeah, of course they will give a referral. But you have to be on par. You have to be Yes. And you have to be you know you have to be friends with them. It's all about building your connections you know the better your network the better you'll be off right especially in

our field of software engineering. Yeah. All right. Uh so you explained very well you know your preparation and interview experience. So on a final note to all of the people who are watching this video what advice would you like to give them? You know they also want to crack a high paying company like Cisco. So what

advice would you like to give them? Well, first of all, like I'm not in I guess I'm not in position right now. Like I'm only 10 months now in the IT and like start early. Start early. I would say to start early, start as soon as possible because now I think there's no gap gap, no barrier. be you are at a

tier three, tier 2, tier 1, any any college you have, you can crack any company any time. So as enjoy your first year, I I will tell enjoy your first year. Start early from your second year. Take notes. Do not do not follow 100 of ways, 100 things. Stick to stick to the main

thing. Stick to the main your DSA. Your DSA is most important right now. Now also check on the new trends that is coming. get some new projects maximum two or three aspirators and uh uh I guess like do some mocks be confident like yeah work on your communication part in different take part in different clubs then only you

can the senior part that I told that if you are in part of different clubs you will get access to the seniors so yeah enjoy your co life plus also take care also prep keep them hand in hand Correct. Correct. Because you never know right now when the opportunity might arrive. Right. If you haven't started

early, if you haven't if you aren't in that right phase, you might end up losing a very good opportunity. Right. So, especially right now like you said T3, we have seen so many people from T3 colleges cracking tier one companies, right? It is happening. It's no longer impossible thing to do. So, you should

be at a preparation level of you know, you should have that level of preparation basically, right? Yeah. actually like in Cisco I was amazed to see that code Cisco is doing it just a brilliant job like the 50% of the people are from tier three college and I do not like they are they have very good

LinkedIn profile very good resume very good technical skills they are now on par with us better than us also nowhere so yeah right it's all about dedication you know the more dedicated you are definitely the higher you'll go correct all right okay so I guess that covers pretty much everything about journey to

Dragon Cisco. If anyone of you still have any doubt, I'll give his LinkedIn in the description. You guys can connect with him from there and follow him from there as well. So, thanks a lot for coming on the channel, sharing your journey. I hope it helps a lot of students. Yeah. Thank you. Thank you.

All right. Okay. I think you can also stop your recording. One second.