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Cisco Data Engineer Interview Questions, Process, and Tips

Updated 3 Oct 2024

Top Cisco Data Engineer Interview Questions and Answers

  • Q1. Optimal Strategy for a Game You and your friend Ninjax are playing a game of coins. Ninjax place the 'N' number of coins in a straight line. The rule of the game is as fo ...read more
  • Q2. Covid Vaccination We are suffering from the Second wave of Covid-19. The Government is trying to increase its vaccination drives. Ninja wants to help the Government to pl ...read more
  • Q3. Search In Rotated Sorted Array Aahad and Harshit always have fun by solving problems. Harshit took a sorted array and rotated it clockwise by an unknown amount. For examp ...read more
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Data Engineer Interview Questions

user image Pradeep Yogesh

posted on 3 Oct 2024

Interview experience
5
 Excellent
Difficulty level
 -
Duration
 -
Result
 -

1 Interview Round

1

Technical Round (1 Question)

  • Q1. Asked about projects

Data Engineer Interview Questions

user image DAVID UGOCHUKWU

posted on 4 Jul 2024

Interview experience
5
 Excellent
Difficulty level
 Moderate
Duration
 Less than 2 weeks
Result
Selected  Selected

I applied via Recruitment Consulltant and was interviewed before Jul 2023.

1 Interview Round

1

Technical Round (2 Questions)

  • Q1. How would you build a pipeline for a Machine learning project?
  • Q2. How do you measure the performance of a model?

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Data Engineer Interview Questions

user image CodingNinjas

posted on 4 Apr 2022

I was interviewed in Jan 2022.

3 Interview Rounds

1

Coding Test Round (1 Question)

Round duration - 90 minutes
Round difficulty - Medium

It had 14 MCQ questions and one coding question.

  • Q1. Optimal Strategy for a Game You and your friend Ninjax are playing a game of coins. Ninjax place the 'N' number of coins in a straight line. The rule of...read more
2

Video Call Round (2 Questions)

Round duration - 60 Minutes
Round difficulty - Medium

It started with introduction , discussion of some projects I did (in depth)
After as i have Machine Learning in my resume , asked some questions regrading data quality , how to improve it . What is considered as bad data
Then 2 DSA questions 
3-4 SQL queries : nth largest salary , JOINS, etc

  • Q1. Search In Rotated Sorted Array Aahad and Harshit always have fun by solving problems. Harshit took a sorted array and rotated it clockwise by an unknown amount....read more
  • Q2. Next Greater Number You are given a string S which represents a number. You have to find the smallest number strictly greater than the given number which contai...read more
3

Video Call Round (1 Question)

Round duration - 60 Minutes
Round difficulty - Easy

It was the managerial round

Started from projects , tech stack used , SQL query , Joins, Normalization 
and simple discussion of space and time after coding binary search both iterative and recursive

  • Q1. Covid Vaccination We are suffering from the Second wave of Covid-19. The Government is trying to increase its vaccination drives. Ninja wants to help the Govern...read more

Interview Preparation Tips

Professional and academic backgroundI applied for the job as Data Engineer in BengaluruEligibility criteria8.5 CGPA at some post (not sure of the role i applied for)Cisco interview preparation:Topics to prepare for the interview - Data Structures, OOPS, Algorithms, Dynamic Programming Projects, DBMS, sql queries, Indexing , NormalizationTime required to prepare for the interview - 2 MonthsInterview preparation tips for other job seekers

Tip 1 : Practice on leetcode ( numbers are not important but you should be able to the approach where its required and that comes with practice)
Tip 2 : Be Clear with your projects, your role. (They really go in depth with projects and internships)
Tip 3 : Do look into the job role and have an idea about the job role and what is expected, (this shows that you are interested in the role)

Application resume tips for other job seekers

Tip 1 : Don't make it too fancy as sometime , resume parse wont be parsing your resume correctly that may lead to rejection.
Tip 2 : Don't lie about anything in resume, its a red flag. You should be able to justify everything that is there in the resume.
Tip 3 : Highlight things that you want to showcase . coding profiles , project, tech stack, achievement

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Interview experience
5
 Excellent
Difficulty level
 Moderate
Duration
 Less than 2 weeks
Result
 Not Selected

I applied via Referral and was interviewed in Jan 2024.

1 Interview Round

1

Technical Round (2 Questions)

  • Q1. String reverse without using loop
  • Q2. Finding an equilibrium point in an array

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Interview experience
5
 Excellent
Difficulty level
 Moderate
Duration
 2-4 weeks
Result
 Not Selected

I applied via campus placement at BRACT's Vishwakarma Institute of Information Technology, Pune and was interviewed in Oct 2024.

1 Interview Round

1

One-on-one Round (4 Questions)

  • Q1. What is polymorphism
  • Q2. Find missing number from nth number array.
  • Q3. Explain inheritance and it types
  • Q4. Find 2nd max elements from aaray
Interview experience
3
 Average
Difficulty level
 -
Duration
 -
Result
 -

1 Interview Round

1

Technical Round (2 Questions)

  • Q1. Data structure algorithm questions related to various scenarios
  • Q2. DS Algo related questions which revolved around different scenarios

Software Engineer Interview Questions

Sandvine user image Sourabh Kamate

posted on 29 Aug 2024

Interview experience
4
 Good
Difficulty level
 Moderate
Duration
 Less than 2 weeks
Result
Selected  Selected

I applied via campus placement at RV College Of Engineering (RVCE) and was interviewed in Jul 2024.

2 Interview Rounds

1

Coding Test Round

It includes two DSA questions and some aptitude questions

2

One-on-one Round (3 Questions)

  • Q1. Introduce yourself
  • Q2. Give the maximum element at any point of time for after pop and push
  • Q3. Reverse a string
Interview experience
3
 Average
Difficulty level
 Moderate
Duration
 Less than 2 weeks
Result
 Not Selected

I applied via Recruitment Consulltant and was interviewed in Aug 2024.

2 Interview Rounds

1

Phone Call Round (2 Questions)

  • Q1. Tell me about your previous company role ?
  • Q2. Willing to join Arista ?
2

Coding Test Round

One Hr interview with 3-4 coding questions on strings,array and linked list

Interview experience
4
 Good
Difficulty level
 -
Duration
 -
Result
 -

2 Interview Rounds

1

Technical Round (1 Question)

  • Q1. Java basics , oops , spring
2

One-on-one Round (1 Question)

  • Q1. Manger round basics behavior

Data Analyst Interview Questions

Nvidia user image Anonymous

posted on 26 Nov 2024

Interview experience
3
 Average
Difficulty level
 -
Duration
 -
Result
 -

1 Interview Round

1

Case Study Round

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Cisco Interview FAQs

How many rounds are there in Cisco Data Engineer interview?
Cisco interview process usually has 1 rounds. The most common rounds in the Cisco interview process are Technical.
How to prepare for Cisco Data Engineer interview?
Go through your CV in detail and study all the technologies mentioned in your CV. Prepare at least two technologies or languages in depth if you are appearing for a technical interview at Cisco. The most common topics and skills that interviewers at Cisco expect are Python, cisco, Analytics, Information Technology and SQL.
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