I applied through university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Cisco (Atlanta, GA) in Feb 2010
Interview
Interview followed a typical college career fair, but I immediately signed up for an interview slot with a current employee the following day. The interview lasted 45 minutes, fairly casual with pretty standard HR-type questions.
We more or less walked through my resume with the occasional "Give me an example of when you had to work in a team" or "Provide me an example where you showed leadership skills", etc.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
What is an example of when you had to work in a team?
The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Cisco (Irvine, CA) in Apr 2009
Interview
Applied online. Got 2 1:1 interviews with engineers and managers, Q's were on internship-1 experience, projects,c and networking protocols.
My advice is improve the conceptual clarity of the prime topics. Primarily focus on computer architecture, OS, algorithms & data structures,wire line or wired networks topics.
In general ,improve problem solving skills that will help at any point.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
how efficient is it to implement fibonacci of a nth number using recursion.