Monday, March 21, 2011

CISCO - interview process

The selection process consisted of three rounds. The first round is written followed by one technical round. The third round comprised of few technical questions and then moved on to HR questions.
Round 1:
        The first round had both aptitude and technical questions. The aptitude questions ranged from being easy to moderately difficult. It can be cracked by mastering the questions in the following link:
http://indiabix.com/
        Technical questions were not limited to certain major topics. There were questions from microprocessors and programming languages. There were no questions from JAVA but the section had questions from semiconductors as the company is equally important to ece students. Hence brushing up the basics of EDC ( collector, emitter kind of questions and Zener diode) will help you to score more. There were no questions asking to write coding or algorithms as all the questions were multiple choice with options. The questions had negative marking.
Round 2:
         They shortlisted 18 students for the second round. The round had questions from all the subjects. Questions were  primarily from projects. Projects were given much importance and hence have sound knowledge in the working of the project. The questions to me were like:
1. Draw the ER diagram of your project.
2. Given a situation what datastructure will you use ?
3. What are different scheduling algorithms ? Advantages and Disadvantages?
4. Situation where no process is requesting any resource and still a deadlock arises ?
5. Types of databases ? Characteristics of each ?
6. Questions in pointers in C.
7. Types of Semaphores ? usage ?
8. One question using bitwise operators.
9.Paging and segmentation
       The major topics will be OS, Datastructures but they had questions from all the subjects. The questions were basic .
      NPTEL materials will be useful in answering the questions.
Round 3:
       Similar to Round 2 there were some questions . The questions were centered around the hobby and extra curricular activities. They expect confident answers.
        These are excerpts from my interview. Different panels do in different way. The basic point to note when preparing is to make an all round preparation without concentrating only on core subjects. All the Best!

compiled by Ganeshram

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