Cisco Data Engineer

YOE: 2.7 years
Current Organization: Service-based MNC

The interview process began with a phone screening round where the recruiter asked for basic details such as location and reasons for leaving the current organization. Following that, I was sent a DSA test which included 1 DSA questions alongside 1 SQL question -both were medium complexity. Languages allowed for the test were Python and JavaScript.

About 10 days later, I received a call for the first round of interviews. The session started with basic SQL and Data Warehousing questions, covering topics like joins, indexing, performance tuning, and briefly touching on Python. Another interviewer focused on Linux and Cron knowledge before concluding with some HR-related questions.

Within three working days, I received feedback from HR and progressed to the second round within the next five days. This round predominantly tested SQL and JavaScript knowledge. The interviewer delved deeper into SQL concepts, data storage, warehousing, and normalization and some SQL queries(joins and window functions).

After a wait of around five days, I was scheduled for a final round with the hiring manager (HM). The interaction with the HM was pleasant, with a few situational questions and a high-level discussion about job responsibilities.

Feedback from this round was provided the same evening, and I received the offer within the next two working days.

Overall, my interview experience with Cisco was positive.
Compensation details: https://leetcode.com/discuss/compensation/4875942/Cisco-or-Data-Engineer-role

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