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%
Presentation: 25%
Background check: 25%
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while cisco is overall a great company, some of their interviewers can be very unknowledgeable and unprofessional/disrespectful. The interviewer/engineer called in 10 minutes late on a scheduled 30 minutes call, then asked questions totally unrelated to what the group is doing, drilling down on unnecessary details about tools the team is NOT using, not to mention lacking of knowledge on even the basic data structure/algorithms, and jeering and laughing throughout, and this is someone with a 'principle software engineer' title. Definitely a cut or two below top tier company. I sent in my request to withdraw my application right after the interview.
I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Cisco (San Jose, CA) in Jul 2012
Interview
I was contacted by the Hiring team and then contacted over the phone by a Cisco Employee who asked me general Java Question.
On Site interivew was a 5 hour interview split over 1 hour each wherein the Engineers came ans asked me questions about Java.