Cisco interview experience Real time questions & tips from candidates to crack your interview

Application Engineer

Cisco
upvote
share-icon
4 rounds | 9 Coding problems

Interview preparation journey

expand-icon
Preparation
Duration: 1 Month
Topics: Data Structure, OOPS, Graphs, DP, Trees, Computer Networks
Tip
Tip

Tip 1:  Have 2-3 good-level Projects 
Tip 2 : Practice more DSA questions.
Tip 3 : Try to have a firm base on basics
Tip 4 : If you have free time start practicing puzzles.

Application process
Where: Campus
Eligibility: 7 CGPA (CSE,IT,ECE,EE)
Resume Tip
Resume tip

Tip 1 : One Page Resume, Do not put false things in a resume.
Tip 2 : Mention 2 -3 projects

Interview rounds

01
Round
Medium
Online Coding Interview
Duration60 Minutes
Interview date2 Sep 2021
Coding problem2

1. Subsequences of String

Moderate
15m average time
85% success
0/80
Asked in companies
AmazonCiscoShareChat

You are given a string 'STR' containing lowercase English letters from a to z inclusive. Your task is to find all non-empty possible subsequences of 'STR'.

A Subsequence of a string is the one which is generated by deleting 0 or more letters from the string and keeping the rest of the letters in the same order.
Try solving now

2. Minimum Sum Of Two Numbers Formed From Digits Of An Array

Easy
15m average time
85% success
0/40
Asked in companies
CiscoChegg Inc.

Given an array of integers “ARR” in which value of each element is between 0 and 9(both inclusive), You are supposed to construct two numbers by concatenating the elements of ARR and find the minimum possible sum of two numbers formed using the elements of the array.

Note: Each element of the given array must be a part of exactly one number.

Try solving now
02
Round
Easy
Video Call
Duration60 Minutes
Interview date6 Sep 2021
Coding problem3

1. Intersection Of Two Sorted Arrays

Easy
10m average time
90% success
0/40
Asked in companies
Chegg Inc.IBMFacebook

You are given two arrays 'A' and 'B' of size 'N' and 'M' respectively. Both these arrays are sorted in non-decreasing order. You have to find the intersection of these two arrays.

Intersection of two arrays is an array that consists of all the common elements occurring in both arrays.

Note :
1. The length of each array is greater than zero.
2. Both the arrays are sorted in non-decreasing order.
3. The output should be in the order of elements that occur in the original arrays.
4. If there is no intersection present then return an empty array.
Try solving now

2. Diameter of Binary Tree

Easy
10m average time
90% success
0/40
Asked in companies
AdobeSnapdealPhonePe

You are given a Binary Tree.


Return the length of the diameter of the tree.


Note :
The diameter of a binary tree is the length of the longest path between any two end nodes in a tree.

The number of edges between two nodes represents the length of the path between them.
Example :
Input: Consider the given binary tree:

Example

Output: 6

Explanation:
Nodes in the diameter are highlighted. The length of the diameter, i.e., the path length, is 6.


Try solving now

3. Technical Questions

What is the difference between Interpreter and Compiler?
How do you prepare yourself while giving any contest
Internal working of Heaps
What are the different types of Polymorphism in java?
Complexity analysis of certain algorithms.
Different types of sorting algorithms.

03
Round
Medium
Video Call
Duration60 Minutes
Interview date6 Sep 2021
Coding problem3

1. Construct BST from Post-order

Moderate
30m average time
60% success
0/80
Asked in companies
Chegg Inc.IntuitCisco

You have been given an array ‘postOrder’ consisting of ‘N’ elements. The array represents the post order traversal of a Binary Search Tree(BST). You need to construct the BST from this post order traversal.

Note: A Binary Search Tree (BST) is a binary tree data structure that has the following properties -

• The left subtree of a node contains only nodes with data less than the node’s data.
• The right subtree of a node contains only nodes with data greater than the node’s data.
• Both the left and right subtrees must also be binary search trees.

For Example:

For the given post order traversal: 2 4 3 7 6 5
The BST will be: 

The Inorder Traversal of this BST is 2 3 4 5 6 7. 
Try solving now

2. Technical Questions

After that she asked me about my projects, then some SRQ (situation reaction questions).

3. Puzzles

You have 5 jars of pills. Each pill weighs 10 grams, except for contaminated pills contained in one jar, where each pill weighs 9 grams. Given a scale, how could you tell which jar had the contaminated pills in just one measurement?
How do we measure forty-five minutes using two identical wires, each of which takes an hour to burn? We have matchsticks with us. The wires burn non-uniformly. So, for example, the two halves of wire might burn in 10 minutes and 50 minutes respectively

Problem approach

I have solved both the puzzles

04
Round
Easy
HR Round
Duration20 Minutes
Interview date6 Sep 2021
Coding problem1

1. Basic HR Questions

Started with an introduction.
About Cisco and its products.
Why cisco.
Competitors of Cisco.
Any plans for further studies.
Location Preference
Then he asked if have any questions?

Here's your problem of the day

Solving this problem will increase your chance to get selected in this company

Skill covered: Programming

To make an AI less repetitive in a long paragraph, you should increase:

Choose another skill to practice
Similar interview experiences
company logo
SDE - Intern
2 rounds | 4 problems
Interviewed by Cisco
868 views
0 comments
0 upvotes
company logo
System Engineer Specialist
3 rounds | 6 problems
Interviewed by Cisco
660 views
0 comments
0 upvotes
company logo
SDE - 1
3 rounds | 5 problems
Interviewed by Cisco
834 views
0 comments
0 upvotes
company logo
SDE - 1
3 rounds | 5 problems
Interviewed by Cisco
968 views
0 comments
0 upvotes
Companies with similar interview experiences
company logo
Application Engineer
3 rounds | 4 problems
Interviewed by Oracle
3561 views
0 comments
0 upvotes