Software Engineer 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 Engineer 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 Engineer according to 2 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 25%
One on one interview: 25%
Background check: 25%
Skills test: 25%
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one stop interview very technical but great groupf people to work with and get to learn alot very tech focused. get touch a lot of diff software adn talk to diff teams, so much to work on
I applied through college or university. The process took 5 days. I interviewed at Cisco (Pune) in May 2023
Interview
It was fine up to first round but from second round it was not very good as the interviewer was doing his own work and was not concentrating on me. Dose not feel good to be taken lightly even if you are a fresher.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
About my final project and the language I used to built it, and the structural aspect of it.
I applied online. The process took 1+ week. I interviewed at Cisco (Kanata, ON) in Jun 2025
Interview
it was good the person asked me about the python and coding stuff and then about the avaliability although i did not have that so it did not went further