I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 days. I interviewed at Cisco (Bengaluru) in Jun 2010
Interview
- Interview will be at a short notice.
- About two to three technical rounds of interview and about two management rounds and if you are through, final will be your HR round where you will negotiate the grade and pay.
- Multiple round of technical interviews enables to find the best in you and this process can be shared by different BU.
- HR people will negotiate hard (especially they will say, today is the last date to finalize and need to immediately accept the offer etc). Take your time. It will be OK to take a day or two to decide and finalize the offer
- Only based on the grade offered you will get trained and you will be allocated assignments. With the assigned grade, you will not be able to prove your mattle for the next grade.
- Grade movement / Promotions are very difficult. There are so many people frustated about this.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Some of the interviewer asks the questions that are college type and may not be relevent to the job. Looks the interviewers prepare themselves with questions available online. I think most of them are applicable for a fresher
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 months. I interviewed at Cisco (San Jose, CA) in Feb 2008
Interview
Recruiter called to check basics. Had one phone screen for 30 mins followed by onsite interview by 6 team members. No hard questions compared. Only one engineer asked a question on linked list. They only check if you know what you mentioned in your resume.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
none. Cisco technical interviews are not that hard.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 3 days. I interviewed at Cisco (Bengaluru) in Apr 2009
Interview
Hiring process is very simple.You need to be good at C programming and should be able to write small programs without mistakes.Should posses a good knowledge systems and how things work in a system