Software Engineer 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 Software Engineer 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 Software Engineer according to 2 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 50%
Presentation: 25%
Background check: 25%
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Contacted by recruiter for phone screen. Made it to onsite but recruiter messed up and thought I was a local. Last minute, she schedules me in for a video conference which was to act as my onsite.
Did well on my “onsite”—three one-hour interviews with three different people. Recruiter came back with good news and asked for my salary expectation. I gave a reasonable market rate for a software engineer of my level in the Bay Area. Was told that “That is too high, base will probably be less than 100k. Will talk to team and get back to you.”
Does not get back to me. Emailed her twice before getting a short response about not moving on due to my high salary requests (even though it’s market rate).
Look elsewhere if you want to be paid what you are worth.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Cisco (Tel Aviv) in Mar 2019
Interview
The interview was 1 hour long, with another two engineers. The interview was in Cisco site in Israel. The interviewers started to talk about what they do at Cisco and then they asked me some project I did.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
They asked me to sum all the values in a given buffer of 4 MB. Then we started to talk about page walking for virtual memory (describing the page walk) and the caches and TLB.
I applied through college or university. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Cisco in Jun 2016
Interview
online test + 2 technical interview s on operating systems and data structures and algorithms + 1 hr interview - why do you want to join this company + final offer after internship
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
c questions, projects on resume and internship project, data structures and algorithm ,operating systems,