Sr. 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 60% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Sr. Software Engineer roles take an average of 60 days to get hired, when considering 1 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 Sr. Software Engineer according to 1 Glassdoor interviews include:
One on one interview: 25%
Background check: 25%
Phone interview: 25%
Presentation: 25%
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I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Cisco (Shanghai, Shanghai) in Jul 2012
Interview
A headhunter contacted me about a position for Cisco and asked me if I have any interest in it. Since it's a position working for cloud solutions that I wanna try, so I submitted my CV to him. After several days, I was invited by the hiring manager for a whole day interview. The interview was not that hard, just normal questions about linux, networking and developing skills. After that, I was invited to Cisco again for interviews with 4 different people. Still questions similar to last interview.
I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Cisco in Jan 2011
Interview
phone interview is followed by onsite interview. onsite interview contains questions from computer science algorithm books. for j2ee positions, j2ee component based questions are asked.