Cisco Interview Experience | UI Developer
- Level: Medium
- Interview and Recruitment Process: Good
Application Process
I reached out to a recruiter on LinkedIn and after shortlisting my resume he sent me the link for online assessment (HackerRank).
Online Assessment
- Level: Easy-Medium
The online assessment has some MCQ based questions and a React Question all to be solved in 2 hours.
After clearing this round, 2 mandatory rounds were scheduled on the same day.
Round 1
- Level: Medium++ (a little higher than medium)
This round revolved around the following concepts:
- OOPS — Inheritance, Abstraction, etc. (Theory + Implementation)
- Promises and Async/Await — Difference b/w the two and implementation.
- Reducers in React
- Context API
- Find the 3rd largest element in an array
- Media queries and responsive designs
Round 2
- Level: Medium
In this round the interview started with my work experience and grilled me on the things which I have worked upon like headless CMS (Strapi), CDN, NextJS (SSR, CSR, SSG). And after all this discussion he started asking some concepts like:
- Localization / Internationalization (i18n)
- Web workers
- Different Content-Types in a HTTP requests
- Critical Rendering Path
- What exactly happens when you hit a URL in the browser?
- React Design Patterns
- Accessibility in web applications
- ARIA
After all this he gave me a problem to be solved in React.
Problem:
Part-1: Create 2 mock API’s which returns a list of students and each student has a name, some marks and a unique registration ID. Data from the 2 API’s can have common students i.e. mock API 1 can have a student as — ABC / 98% / 1234 (name / marks / registration ID) and this same data can be there in mock API 2 response as well. Now after creating these 2 API’s using Promises and hard-coded data, you need to merge the data coming from both API’s and have to delete the duplicates.
Part-2: Use the above data and render it in Box 1. Each student has a checkbox before its name and we can select multiple students at once. All the selected students can be moved to Box 2 by clicked on the 1st button and vice-versa for Box-2.
Verdict: Rejected ❌
