Developer applicants have rated the interview process at Cisco with 2.5 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 50% positive. To compare, the company-average is 60% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Developer roles take an average of 8 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 33 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Cisco as a Developer according to 2 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 50%
Background check: 25%
Presentation: 25%
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The interview process was two rounds. The first round was a behavioral interview. Straightforward questions, like tell me about the most technically challenging project you have worked on. The second round was a system design interview.
I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Cisco (Bengaluru) in Sep 2024
Interview
It was overall a good process ,the interviewer was good and was kind and helped me a lot.He need answers in different programming language as I chose c++ but he wanted results in python as well.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
He asked about C++ stl and their use case and how they are important .And asked some questions related to Linked List and Trees before diving into DSA question which was about swapping elements of Linked list
3 technical rounds of 35-45 mins each for a 5 years experience JS fullstack.
1. Project currently working on + design patterns employed and resume based questions in details to check the depth.
2. System design interview - asked me to mention an approach to design a microservice for retail client. Followed up by questions on why I've chosen a particular tech stack and questions on how to tackle certain situations in real word on such services (inventory + payments etc).
3. DS based test - question was bit easy.