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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Friendly interview, interviewers were very knowledgable and asked project related questions and current relevant technologies like cloud, dbms etc. They asked about the preferred coding language and a subsequent coding question in that language.
Interview was quite simple. Questions were asked on DS Algo and Networking only. Aptitude covered mainly permutations and combinations with also problems asked from distance, time, speed and other topics
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Q. Types of networking
Q. Necessity for Security in Network
Two back to back interviews. Each interview was one hour long.
They did not ask about my experiences and they did not ask any behavioural questions.
The first interview was really difficult. They asked low level systems/Linux questions.
The second interview was medium leet code questions. They were pretty easy to do. They needed me to code them in C, but most of the time they did not need me to compile and show my answer. Pseudocode was generally good enough. There were also some pointer questions.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
If an application went down in production, how can you figure out the problem?