Software Developer applicants have rated the interview process at Cisco with 3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 100% positive. To compare, the company-average is 76.2% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Developer roles take an average of 10 days to get hired, when considering 2 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Cisco overall takes an average of 30 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Cisco as a Software Developer according to 2 Glassdoor interviews include:
Background check: 25%
Skills test: 25%
Phone interview: 25%
One on one interview: 25%
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I have only gotten an online assessment from Cisco. t was taken place on the hackerrank website, and the questions are pretty similar to the common questions on Leetcode. I think I have done well on it. However, I haven't heard anything back yet.
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They asked me something similar to House Robber question on Leetcode.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Cisco (Bengaluru) in Dec 2023
Interview
- 2 Coding rounds. 1st one is screening, 2nd one is more into LLD + Coding
1 System Design - HLD and design concepts
1 Values - Situation based questions as per Cisco values
1 HM - Both tech and situation based discussion
1 HR - Salary negotiation
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Question 1
- Questions related to Stack operations, String manipulations, Array searching
- Tell me about a situation when you were given bad feedback / missed deadline / suggestion was not entertained etc and how did you handle those situations.
- Designing event streamer and followup questions
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Cisco (San Jose, CA) in Sep 2023
Interview
Recruiter Call - initial screening round
OA round - had 2 leetcode medium/easy level questions
Behavioral round - with a manager
Technical round - had 2 coding questions with an Engineer
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1. Leetcode question was around Strings and arrays