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:
One on one interview: 25%
Skills test: 25%
Phone interview: 25%
Background check: 25%
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Technical interview with hr in the next round with salary expectations for the role in the bangalore office. The interview was scheduled for 2 hours and lasted only 1 .
I applied through a staffing agency. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Cisco (Tel Aviv-Yafo) in Jul 2020
Interview
Two on site interviews, both same structure: talk about myself, describe in details a project you worked on, the 2-3 questions, asked to write code on white board.
In each interview there were 2 team members interviewers.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1. Design LRU cache with max capacity, insert, get in O(1)
2. Sort array of RGB objects so that first will be all R, then all G and finally all B
3. Buy/Sell stocks question
4. You have infinite stream of 1/0 bits, in each point you need to say if the current stream is divided by 7 . using O(1) place.
I had 4 rounds of interviews with 3 different teams. Each interview lasted for at least 2 hours which consisted of multiple technical interviews lasting 45 mins each with Cisco engineers.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
All of the interviews were technical and consisted of asking me about one of my projects and then moving on to technical questions regarding the field and then a set of coding challenges.
The following are the areas in which I was asked technical questions:
- Networking
- Linux Programming
- Processes + Multithreading
- Memory Management
- General questions about C/Python
These are the coding challenges I was asked about:
- Check the error in the code and fix it
- Count the number of 1's in a binary number
- Reverse order traversal of binary tree
- How to copy a string in C
- Find the missing number in an array when given 1->n numbers
Most of the coding questions were followed by some analysis + questions regarding possible errors.