{"id":16157,"date":"2017-09-09T19:04:34","date_gmt":"2017-09-09T13:34:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/internshala.com\/blog\/?p=16157"},"modified":"2017-09-09T19:04:34","modified_gmt":"2017-09-09T13:34:34","slug":"internship-at-cisco-how-i-painted-my-career-with-different-shades-of-analytics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/internshala.com\/blog\/internship-at-cisco-how-i-painted-my-career-with-different-shades-of-analytics\/","title":{"rendered":"Internship at Cisco: How I painted my career with different shades of analytics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-16188 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/internshala.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Internship-at-Cisco-How-I-painted-my-career-with-different-shades-of-analytics.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"390\" height=\"205\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em><strong>About the author:\u00a0<\/strong><span data-sheets-value=\"{&quot;1&quot;:2,&quot;2&quot;:&quot;Nandani Madhukar&quot;}\" data-sheets-userformat=\"{&quot;2&quot;:513,&quot;3&quot;:[null,0],&quot;12&quot;:0}\">Nandani Madhukar from\u00a0VIT University shares with us her journey at Cisco IT. She talks about the detailed selection process and the different shades of analytics she learned.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span data-sheets-value=\"{&quot;1&quot;:2,&quot;2&quot;:&quot;My journey from college to corporate couldn\u2019t have started better than Cisco. The first step into my career was well set by the proper guidance and motivation by Cisco. A completely new city, new people and full six months as an Intern taught me a lot about the environment and the culture of the firm.\\nHow I landed in Cisco!\\nCisco is one of the few companies which gives a superdream offer and comes to campus early for placements. The company\u2019s pre-placement presentation was exciting and motivating and it made all of us want to join the firm. More than 700 people opted for Cisco and they selected a total of 16 which was a good number. They took a written round followed by 3 technical and 2 HR rounds. First round were multiple choice questions covering most of the subjects we studied in engineering. Technical rounds were comprised of questions based on my resume, the projects that I did in college and some basic coding questions. One needs to know everything mentioned on resume, in and out. In the HR round I was asked about my achievements, my goals and what makes me different than others. After a grilling process of 12hrs the results were announced and I was offered internship along with full time employment in Cisco IT.\\nThe journey begins...\\nI joined in January 2016 as an IT intern in Enterprise Data Services team. The first week at Cisco was mostly about knowing who\u2019s who and what is the overall structure of Cisco IT. This week was full of team building activities and getting to know each other. We played games, we danced, we ate free food and we got a lot of goodies too in this process. One team activity was really interesting: all of us were split in teams of six people and had to paint pieces of a painting. The aim was to learn to coordinate with other teams and paint the exact same shade of colour on the pieces.\\nFurthermore in the week, we were taken for campus tour and we were amazed by the facilities Cisco has for its employees. From gaming consoles, massage chairs, basketball and badminton court to a box office, this campus has it all. Every floor has a breakout area where you can relax and take a break from your work. \\nWork begins\u2026\\nI was assigned a project on data analytics with a team of 4 people. One project manager, senior engineer and another intern. This project gave us an insight into Cisco\u2019s data and how churning of customers can be prevented by performing predictive analysis of the data. I actually implemented the concepts of data mining which I learned in college. I presented my work in VIT and it was received very well by the faculty. I learned several technologies which is currently used in the industry such as R, Hadoop, SAP HANA, SAP Lumira etc. During my internship I also got a chance to speak to the team members based in San Jose, California. One thing that I appreciate the most is that people are very approachable and will guide you through the difficulties. My manager conducted one-on-one meeting with me in every two weeks and asked me about my progress and if I faced any difficulties. \\nCisco\u2019s amazing culture!\\nNot everything in Cisco is about work. During the internship tenure we went to several team outings. The entire EDS team went out to Club Cabana resort for a day of relaxation and fun. We ate, we danced and we enjoyed in the water rides. We also played several games as a part of team building activities. \\nTowards the end of internship, Cisco IT\u2019s annual function Galata was organized. It was a day full of entertainment, good food and gifts! I won a lucky draw too! I performed Kathak on stage for the first time in my life and the choreographer made us practice during our free time. That day ended with a DJ night and it reminded me of Riviera. \\nMy internship ended with this and I will join Cisco again after a month\u2019s vacation. The journey was really exciting and it couldn\u2019t imagine a better internship than this.\\n&quot;}\" data-sheets-userformat=\"{&quot;2&quot;:513,&quot;3&quot;:[null,0],&quot;12&quot;:0}\">My journey from college to the professional world couldn\u2019t have started on a better note. The first step into my career started with a six-month internship at <strong> Cisco<\/strong>\u00a0in a new city with new people.<\/span>\u00a0Cisco visited our campus in July 2015. After an exciting pre-placement talk, more than 700 people applied for the company, out of which only 16 were selected. The selection procedure consisted of a written test, 3 technical interviews, and 2 HR interviews.\u00a0I fared well in all the rounds. After a grilling process of 12 hrs., the results were announced, and I was offered an internship along with a full-time employment at Cisco IT.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Round 1(1 hr.): <\/strong>The written test consisted of 20 MCQs from aptitude and 30 MCQs from technical subjects (C, C++ based output questions, data structures, OS concepts etc.).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Round 2(20 min.): <\/strong>82 candidates were shortlisted for this\u00a0round which was basically to check which student was best suited for which profile.\u00a0During my interview, I was asked technical questions like DBMS, data structures, networking, C++ programming, etc. He also asked me about my area of interest and about the projects mentioned in my resume. Some of the questions were:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>1.<\/strong> There are two tables T1 (ID, name, sex, age) and T2 (ID, location, phone, address). Write a query to display the name and the address where the location is Vellore and the age is greater than 40. If T1 is further split into tables such that T3 contains male employees and T4 contains female employees, then which table will be better if you want to write the above query? Can T2 be normalized any further?<br \/>\n<strong>2.<\/strong> There are two infinite loops, for and while. How do you stop the execution of such loops? Which loop is better?<br \/>\n<strong>3.<\/strong> Which sorting algorithm works best in all situations? Which algorithm will work worse when the array is already sorted? And why? What is the run time of selection sort?<br \/>\n<strong>4.<\/strong> How many layers are there in TCP\/IP? List out the differences from OSI model. Mention the specifications of each layer.<br \/>\n<strong>5.<\/strong> How does an email travel through all the layers to reach the destination?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Round 3 (15 min): <\/strong>This round began with questions about my summer internship and then I was given two coding questions: &#8220;How do you find a missing element in an array? What will be the best case run-time for this algorithm &#8211; 1, 2, 3, \u00a05, 6, 7,&#8230; ?&#8221;, and &#8220;Write a recursive function for x<sup>n.&#8221;<\/sup><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Round 4 (15 min): <\/strong>\u00a0In this round, I was asked about the technologies that I had used for application development, the different process models of software engineering, the difference between agile and RAD, and about my interest in application development.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Round 5 (20 min): <\/strong>This was the HR round; it began with basic questions about me and my family. The interviewer asked me about my strengths and weaknesses, my uniqueness, my extra-curricular activities, and where I saw myself five years down the line.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Round 6 (10 min): <\/strong>This was the final round where the HR asked me about my accomplishments, my goals, and my expectations from Cisco.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span data-sheets-value=\"{&quot;1&quot;:2,&quot;2&quot;:&quot;My journey from college to corporate couldn\u2019t have started better than Cisco. The first step into my career was well set by the proper guidance and motivation by Cisco. A completely new city, new people and full six months as an Intern taught me a lot about the environment and the culture of the firm.\\nHow I landed in Cisco!\\nCisco is one of the few companies which gives a superdream offer and comes to campus early for placements. The company\u2019s pre-placement presentation was exciting and motivating and it made all of us want to join the firm. More than 700 people opted for Cisco and they selected a total of 16 which was a good number. They took a written round followed by 3 technical and 2 HR rounds. First round were multiple choice questions covering most of the subjects we studied in engineering. Technical rounds were comprised of questions based on my resume, the projects that I did in college and some basic coding questions. One needs to know everything mentioned on resume, in and out. In the HR round I was asked about my achievements, my goals and what makes me different than others. After a grilling process of 12hrs the results were announced and I was offered internship along with full time employment in Cisco IT.\\nThe journey begins...\\nI joined in January 2016 as an IT intern in Enterprise Data Services team. The first week at Cisco was mostly about knowing who\u2019s who and what is the overall structure of Cisco IT. This week was full of team building activities and getting to know each other. We played games, we danced, we ate free food and we got a lot of goodies too in this process. One team activity was really interesting: all of us were split in teams of six people and had to paint pieces of a painting. The aim was to learn to coordinate with other teams and paint the exact same shade of colour on the pieces.\\nFurthermore in the week, we were taken for campus tour and we were amazed by the facilities Cisco has for its employees. From gaming consoles, massage chairs, basketball and badminton court to a box office, this campus has it all. Every floor has a breakout area where you can relax and take a break from your work. \\nWork begins\u2026\\nI was assigned a project on data analytics with a team of 4 people. One project manager, senior engineer and another intern. This project gave us an insight into Cisco\u2019s data and how churning of customers can be prevented by performing predictive analysis of the data. I actually implemented the concepts of data mining which I learned in college. I presented my work in VIT and it was received very well by the faculty. I learned several technologies which is currently used in the industry such as R, Hadoop, SAP HANA, SAP Lumira etc. During my internship I also got a chance to speak to the team members based in San Jose, California. One thing that I appreciate the most is that people are very approachable and will guide you through the difficulties. My manager conducted one-on-one meeting with me in every two weeks and asked me about my progress and if I faced any difficulties. \\nCisco\u2019s amazing culture!\\nNot everything in Cisco is about work. During the internship tenure we went to several team outings. The entire EDS team went out to Club Cabana resort for a day of relaxation and fun. We ate, we danced and we enjoyed in the water rides. We also played several games as a part of team building activities. \\nTowards the end of internship, Cisco IT\u2019s annual function Galata was organized. It was a day full of entertainment, good food and gifts! I won a lucky draw too! I performed Kathak on stage for the first time in my life and the choreographer made us practice during our free time. That day ended with a DJ night and it reminded me of Riviera. \\nMy internship ended with this and I will join Cisco again after a month\u2019s vacation. The journey was really exciting and it couldn\u2019t imagine a better internship than this.\\n&quot;}\" data-sheets-userformat=\"{&quot;2&quot;:513,&quot;3&quot;:[null,0],&quot;12&quot;:0}\">I joined in January 2016 as an IT intern in <em>Enterprise Data Services team<\/em>. In the 1st week, several team-building activities were conducted to break the ice between the team members. We played games, danced, ate free food, and received goodies.\u00a0Furthermore, we were given a campus tour; we were amazed by the facilities Cisco had for its employees. Gaming consoles, massage chairs, basketball, badminton court, box office, they had it all. Every floor had a breakout area where we could relax and take a break from work.\u00a0<\/span>I was assigned a project on data analytics with a team of 4 people. My\u00a0project focused on <em>analyzing the Cisco WebEx usage data and performing predictive analysis on it<\/em>. <span data-sheets-value=\"{&quot;1&quot;:2,&quot;2&quot;:&quot;My journey from college to corporate couldn\u2019t have started better than Cisco. The first step into my career was well set by the proper guidance and motivation by Cisco. A completely new city, new people and full six months as an Intern taught me a lot about the environment and the culture of the firm.\\nHow I landed in Cisco!\\nCisco is one of the few companies which gives a superdream offer and comes to campus early for placements. The company\u2019s pre-placement presentation was exciting and motivating and it made all of us want to join the firm. More than 700 people opted for Cisco and they selected a total of 16 which was a good number. They took a written round followed by 3 technical and 2 HR rounds. First round were multiple choice questions covering most of the subjects we studied in engineering. Technical rounds were comprised of questions based on my resume, the projects that I did in college and some basic coding questions. One needs to know everything mentioned on resume, in and out. In the HR round I was asked about my achievements, my goals and what makes me different than others. After a grilling process of 12hrs the results were announced and I was offered internship along with full time employment in Cisco IT.\\nThe journey begins...\\nI joined in January 2016 as an IT intern in Enterprise Data Services team. The first week at Cisco was mostly about knowing who\u2019s who and what is the overall structure of Cisco IT. This week was full of team building activities and getting to know each other. We played games, we danced, we ate free food and we got a lot of goodies too in this process. One team activity was really interesting: all of us were split in teams of six people and had to paint pieces of a painting. The aim was to learn to coordinate with other teams and paint the exact same shade of colour on the pieces.\\nFurthermore in the week, we were taken for campus tour and we were amazed by the facilities Cisco has for its employees. From gaming consoles, massage chairs, basketball and badminton court to a box office, this campus has it all. Every floor has a breakout area where you can relax and take a break from your work. \\nWork begins\u2026\\nI was assigned a project on data analytics with a team of 4 people. One project manager, senior engineer and another intern. This project gave us an insight into Cisco\u2019s data and how churning of customers can be prevented by performing predictive analysis of the data. I actually implemented the concepts of data mining which I learned in college. I presented my work in VIT and it was received very well by the faculty. I learned several technologies which is currently used in the industry such as R, Hadoop, SAP HANA, SAP Lumira etc. During my internship I also got a chance to speak to the team members based in San Jose, California. One thing that I appreciate the most is that people are very approachable and will guide you through the difficulties. My manager conducted one-on-one meeting with me in every two weeks and asked me about my progress and if I faced any difficulties. \\nCisco\u2019s amazing culture!\\nNot everything in Cisco is about work. During the internship tenure we went to several team outings. The entire EDS team went out to Club Cabana resort for a day of relaxation and fun. We ate, we danced and we enjoyed in the water rides. We also played several games as a part of team building activities. \\nTowards the end of internship, Cisco IT\u2019s annual function Galata was organized. It was a day full of entertainment, good food and gifts! I won a lucky draw too! I performed Kathak on stage for the first time in my life and the choreographer made us practice during our free time. That day ended with a DJ night and it reminded me of Riviera. \\nMy internship ended with this and I will join Cisco again after a month\u2019s vacation. The journey was really exciting and it couldn\u2019t imagine a better internship than this.\\n&quot;}\" data-sheets-userformat=\"{&quot;2&quot;:513,&quot;3&quot;:[null,0],&quot;12&quot;:0}\">I implemented the concepts of data mining which I had learned in college.\u00a0<\/span>There are enterprise and personal customers who subscribe to the on-demand collaboration services offered by WebEx like online meeting center, training center, support center, events center, etc. The subscriptions result in a huge data flow into Cisco. Churn analysis determines the possible customers who might unsubscribe to WebEx services which helped us in customer retention. Also, we could connect customer satisfaction information with other data\u00a0to better understand customer needs and improve their loyalty. Data from the servers was extracted using Hive query editor and the results were stored on the local system. Descriptive analysis gave us the important attributes and visualization patterns present in that data. After that, we built four classification models based on data mining algorithms to test which one worked best and had the least no. of errors. No model is perfect in data science prediction. Hence, each model gave some error percentage in the result. The best model was chosen for further analysis and work. The models were built on the local system and later executed on Hadoop servers using enterprise R.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span data-sheets-value=\"{&quot;1&quot;:2,&quot;2&quot;:&quot;My journey from college to corporate couldn\u2019t have started better than Cisco. The first step into my career was well set by the proper guidance and motivation by Cisco. A completely new city, new people and full six months as an Intern taught me a lot about the environment and the culture of the firm.\\nHow I landed in Cisco!\\nCisco is one of the few companies which gives a superdream offer and comes to campus early for placements. The company\u2019s pre-placement presentation was exciting and motivating and it made all of us want to join the firm. More than 700 people opted for Cisco and they selected a total of 16 which was a good number. They took a written round followed by 3 technical and 2 HR rounds. First round were multiple choice questions covering most of the subjects we studied in engineering. Technical rounds were comprised of questions based on my resume, the projects that I did in college and some basic coding questions. One needs to know everything mentioned on resume, in and out. In the HR round I was asked about my achievements, my goals and what makes me different than others. After a grilling process of 12hrs the results were announced and I was offered internship along with full time employment in Cisco IT.\\nThe journey begins...\\nI joined in January 2016 as an IT intern in Enterprise Data Services team. The first week at Cisco was mostly about knowing who\u2019s who and what is the overall structure of Cisco IT. This week was full of team building activities and getting to know each other. We played games, we danced, we ate free food and we got a lot of goodies too in this process. One team activity was really interesting: all of us were split in teams of six people and had to paint pieces of a painting. The aim was to learn to coordinate with other teams and paint the exact same shade of colour on the pieces.\\nFurthermore in the week, we were taken for campus tour and we were amazed by the facilities Cisco has for its employees. From gaming consoles, massage chairs, basketball and badminton court to a box office, this campus has it all. Every floor has a breakout area where you can relax and take a break from your work. \\nWork begins\u2026\\nI was assigned a project on data analytics with a team of 4 people. One project manager, senior engineer and another intern. This project gave us an insight into Cisco\u2019s data and how churning of customers can be prevented by performing predictive analysis of the data. I actually implemented the concepts of data mining which I learned in college. I presented my work in VIT and it was received very well by the faculty. I learned several technologies which is currently used in the industry such as R, Hadoop, SAP HANA, SAP Lumira etc. During my internship I also got a chance to speak to the team members based in San Jose, California. One thing that I appreciate the most is that people are very approachable and will guide you through the difficulties. My manager conducted one-on-one meeting with me in every two weeks and asked me about my progress and if I faced any difficulties. \\nCisco\u2019s amazing culture!\\nNot everything in Cisco is about work. During the internship tenure we went to several team outings. The entire EDS team went out to Club Cabana resort for a day of relaxation and fun. We ate, we danced and we enjoyed in the water rides. We also played several games as a part of team building activities. \\nTowards the end of internship, Cisco IT\u2019s annual function Galata was organized. It was a day full of entertainment, good food and gifts! I won a lucky draw too! I performed Kathak on stage for the first time in my life and the choreographer made us practice during our free time. That day ended with a DJ night and it reminded me of Riviera. \\nMy internship ended with this and I will join Cisco again after a month\u2019s vacation. The journey was really exciting and it couldn\u2019t imagine a better internship than this.\\n&quot;}\" data-sheets-userformat=\"{&quot;2&quot;:513,&quot;3&quot;:[null,0],&quot;12&quot;:0}\">My project was well received in college. I learned several technologies which are currently used in the analytics industry such as R, Hadoop, SAP HANA, SAP Lumira, etc. I also learned building data model using R language. My manager conducted a one-on-one meeting with me, every two weeks, where he asked me about my progress and the difficulties I was facing.\u00a0<\/span><span data-sheets-value=\"{&quot;1&quot;:2,&quot;2&quot;:&quot;My journey from college to corporate couldn\u2019t have started better than Cisco. The first step into my career was well set by the proper guidance and motivation by Cisco. A completely new city, new people and full six months as an Intern taught me a lot about the environment and the culture of the firm.\\nHow I landed in Cisco!\\nCisco is one of the few companies which gives a superdream offer and comes to campus early for placements. The company\u2019s pre-placement presentation was exciting and motivating and it made all of us want to join the firm. More than 700 people opted for Cisco and they selected a total of 16 which was a good number. They took a written round followed by 3 technical and 2 HR rounds. First round were multiple choice questions covering most of the subjects we studied in engineering. Technical rounds were comprised of questions based on my resume, the projects that I did in college and some basic coding questions. One needs to know everything mentioned on resume, in and out. In the HR round I was asked about my achievements, my goals and what makes me different than others. After a grilling process of 12hrs the results were announced and I was offered internship along with full time employment in Cisco IT.\\nThe journey begins...\\nI joined in January 2016 as an IT intern in Enterprise Data Services team. The first week at Cisco was mostly about knowing who\u2019s who and what is the overall structure of Cisco IT. This week was full of team building activities and getting to know each other. We played games, we danced, we ate free food and we got a lot of goodies too in this process. One team activity was really interesting: all of us were split in teams of six people and had to paint pieces of a painting. The aim was to learn to coordinate with other teams and paint the exact same shade of colour on the pieces.\\nFurthermore in the week, we were taken for campus tour and we were amazed by the facilities Cisco has for its employees. From gaming consoles, massage chairs, basketball and badminton court to a box office, this campus has it all. Every floor has a breakout area where you can relax and take a break from your work. \\nWork begins\u2026\\nI was assigned a project on data analytics with a team of 4 people. One project manager, senior engineer and another intern. This project gave us an insight into Cisco\u2019s data and how churning of customers can be prevented by performing predictive analysis of the data. I actually implemented the concepts of data mining which I learned in college. I presented my work in VIT and it was received very well by the faculty. I learned several technologies which is currently used in the industry such as R, Hadoop, SAP HANA, SAP Lumira etc. During my internship I also got a chance to speak to the team members based in San Jose, California. One thing that I appreciate the most is that people are very approachable and will guide you through the difficulties. My manager conducted one-on-one meeting with me in every two weeks and asked me about my progress and if I faced any difficulties. \\nCisco\u2019s amazing culture!\\nNot everything in Cisco is about work. During the internship tenure we went to several team outings. The entire EDS team went out to Club Cabana resort for a day of relaxation and fun. We ate, we danced and we enjoyed in the water rides. We also played several games as a part of team building activities. \\nTowards the end of internship, Cisco IT\u2019s annual function Galata was organized. It was a day full of entertainment, good food and gifts! I won a lucky draw too! I performed Kathak on stage for the first time in my life and the choreographer made us practice during our free time. That day ended with a DJ night and it reminded me of Riviera. \\nMy internship ended with this and I will join Cisco again after a month\u2019s vacation. The journey was really exciting and it couldn\u2019t imagine a better internship than this.\\n&quot;}\" data-sheets-userformat=\"{&quot;2&quot;:513,&quot;3&quot;:[null,0],&quot;12&quot;:0}\">Not everything in Cisco was about work; we went to several team outings. My entire team went out to Club Cabana resort to relax and have fun. At the end of the internship, Cisco IT\u2019s annual function &#8211;\u00a0<em>Galata,<\/em> was organized. It was a day full of entertainment, good food, and gifts. I performed Kathak on stage for the first time in my life! 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