Cisco System Engineer interview questions

Cisco policy is that a minimum of five individual interviews be held. From beginning to end, I attended thirteen interviews. The first two interviews were on the telephone. The first screening telephone interview was conducted by a recent graduate employee asking detailed network engineering and IP communications questions. The second telephone interview was conducted by a recruiter and this covered personality questions. I was flown down to Stockley Park for the next five interviews and exams. It was a two-day recruitment event for the graduate training programme. Five individual interviews were carried out with different groups of senior systems engineers and management. One of the interviews required me to present for an hour on "Why I deserve to work for Cisco". Everyone was pleasant, and because it was spread over two days, there didn't seem to be a sense of urgency - everyone was relaxed. After passing through that round of interviews, I returned to Stockley Park for the field and group assignment interviews. This determined whether I would get a job at Cisco and which organisation within Cisco I would be placed. The five remaining individual interviews were casual. One of them was a walk-and-talk around the park! Very relaxed.

Two rounds of interviews, one phone interview and one assessment centre. The two interviews had a big spread between them, about 2 months. The first interview was sometime in November and the second sometime around January. They called me up the next day after my assessment center.