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%
Skills test: 25%
Background check: 25%
One on one interview: 25%
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Interview process was virtual and was conducted in a smooth manner. Interview was on Cisco webex platform.
1).There was Online Aptitude and Coding round.
2)There were in all 3 Interviews rounds. (Technical interview, managerial interview, HR interview)
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1).Introduce yourself
2).Networking and cyber security questions based on CCNA course.
3).Algorithm and puzzzles
The interview was conducted virtually on the cisco Webex teams. It was a great learning experience for me. Mainly questions were asked about the Projects and some basic questions from the networking.
Took 5 rounds ,nearly 6 hours. Mostly networking and data structures. Was asked to write couple of programs based on arrays n hashing. Basic networking questions like packet flow , dead lock and synchronization mechanism. Questions based on IPCs like message queue, sockets.