Senior 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 Senior 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 Senior Software Engineer according to 1 Glassdoor interviews include:
One on one interview: 25%
Phone interview: 25%
Background check: 25%
Presentation: 25%
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First round was not bad. Only a single tech lead was there asking basic C programming questions. Second round was bot of long and painful. 3 1+ hours sessions with 2 guys with some of them being the hiring manager. Technical questions and soft skill questions alternating. Some of the questions could be tricky such as recursive C functions.
Overall you can see they are looking for good C programmer which can do their work.
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Question 1
How do you resolved conflicts when you and your peer doesn't agree on the technical solution?
I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Cisco (San Jose, CA) in Oct 2014
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had 10 hours of interview 5 hours each. questions were not difficult everything in the areas of data structures, OS fundamentals and c programming. Interviewed for development engineer and the its a 1:1 type interview where each interviewer spends 1 hr with me. They started asking C-programming questions the 2nd minute itself. all the interviewers are really nice and friendly, except one person who acted very weird, showing attitude as if Cisco is standing just because of him, working on his laptop, replying emails, saying "shoot..", come on.. etc etc . I did not had a mood to answer him.
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Question 1
the hiring manager sitting next to me and asking me to write a c program on his laptop, which I did not expect.
My company was taken over by cisco,so we were on cisco pay roll.so no hiring process was followed as well.No interviews were taken as well.
only documents were reviewed and we were hired by them.
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I was not interviewed and had an direct entry to cisco systems