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Hi, my name is Yuvika Singh , In this article, I will share my Interview experience as a Cisco India Software Engineer Intern’2025. 🚀
Role: Software Engineer — Network/Embedded/Application Development (Intern) — India UHR
Round 1:Online Assessment:
Date:2nd September 2024
Platform: Hackerrank
In the online assessment, there were 2 coding questions and almost 40 MCQs related to Computer Fundamentals , Electronic Communication and general aptitude. and only studied OS till now. I almost solved all the MCQs correctly and in the coding part, I solved one question with all test cases passed and another 30% TC passed. The level of the coding questions were difficult. I would like to categorize them as Leetcode medium-hard problem.
But, after a few days, I got an email regarding further procedures and the need to send an inclusive resume. 📝.
Round 2: Pre Plaacement talk
Those students who cleared the OA round got the mail for Pre placement talk.In that pre placement talk there were a few software engineers who shared there experience at Cisco. Cisco also explained its process of inclusive resume .All those candiadtes who were shortlisted were required to create a inclusive resume which does contains details such as name, name of the college and CGPA. Each candidate was given a candidate code instead of names and interviews were conducted based on the candidate codes.
Round 3:Technical Interview
Date:27 September
Platform:Webex Meeting
One day before the Interview they sent a WebEx space link to join there.
On Webex itself, they sent us the schedule of each candidate and as per that, my interview was from 8.30 to 9.15 a.m. They tagged and sent personalized links for the meeting for each candidate. I started my Interview at 8.30 a.m.
At first, there was an introduction part, as usual, and then he asked me about my projects and the interviewer discussed my Gatepass Management project and was interested in that more
Questions related to project
He asked to explain my project.
What tech stacks you used?
What was your role in the project?
Which server you used?
How are the different components of your project being connected(Frontend,backend,server)?
How were you storing password in the database?
How you dealt with server crash?
Explain different methods used for hashing passwords?
What was the application port no?
Then, after the project discussion, he directly switched to Coding question and asked me to code in Python. But I requested the interviewer to allow me to code in C++ since I was more proficient in C++.The interviewer allowed me to do so. The coding was related to the no of denominations problem. It was an easy -medium level question. He just asked one coding question to me.
Later, he switched on to CS Fundamentals and networking .He asked about OOPS's Concept.
What is inheritance?
What is the need for memory management?
Different memory management techniques used in OS.
Networking questions
What is a gateway?
Briefly explain TCP/IP protocol.
Difference between HTTP AND HTTPS.
DHCP Protocol.
What is SSH and DLS .
What are embedded systems?
After that the interviewer started asking situation based questions.
What problems you faced while working on your projects?How you overcome that Problem?
What will you when you are given a task that is beyond your capabilities?
Have you helped your team members while working on the project?
And the interview finished.
Unfortunately I was unable to qualify for the next round.But the whole experience was really very valuable.
TIPS:
Be thorough with your projects.What you are using and why you are using you should be aware of that.
To answer situation based questions follow the STAR method to answer.
