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:
Background check: 25%
Phone interview: 25%
Skills test: 25%
One on one interview: 25%
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My interview experience wasn't great. They conducted three rounds of interviews, and while the interviewers were nice, the recruiter never reached out to share any feedback, and she hasn't been responding to my calls or messages.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Max area rectangle of binary matrix.
Inorder traversal using stack
array stack problem.
I applied online. I interviewed at Cisco (Bengaluru) in Jun 2024
Interview
Applied via referral.
Got the link for online assessment in 2 days, it had 5 easy-medium questions to be solved in 90 mins. This followed by a hiring manager interview.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Linked list, ad-hoc math questions
In what all cases does memory leak happen
In what all cases do we get a segmentation fault
How will you determine memory leak
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Cisco in Jul 2021
Interview
2 technical interviews, similar.
At first they ask you about yourself, then they talk about the company.
After that they ask you about some project you did in the past. Then 1-2 coding problems.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Merge two sorted lists, where one of them have random spaces enough to fit all the elements from the other list.