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 and had a 30 minute talk.
Went on to have a phone interview which was a technical programming interview. Some basic computational problem.
Went onsite and had 4 hours of interviews including architectural design and programming.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Asked me to describe how computers work at a high and low level, as well as design a REST API for a complete system
I applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Cisco (Bengaluru) in Apr 2015
Interview
Interview process was good .HR executives were very friendly.
First Round was written round . It consisted of 4 sections
C programming mailnly linux /process/fork etc
English
Aptitude
1 C program
2nd round was F2F technicle lasted for 50 minutes
asked basic bit operations , IPC mechanisms /Linked list programs ,Memory allocation etc
3rd Round was Again F2F asked to implement memcpy
4th round was HR enquired about previous hike, expected salary and Personal Details etc
Asked to send Salary details ASAP.
But i was never contacted . After sending gentle email also i didn't get any Reply.I didnt get Rejection Mail also.
After somedays my friend working there contected and updated me that i was not selected
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Cisco (San Jose, CA) in Jul 2012
Interview
Applied through employee referral. Contacted by the HR. Scheduled phone screen with a technical leader. Basic C fundamentals, networking questions in the phone screen. Called for onsite. Scheduled for 4 1-1 inteview with lunch interview with manager. More c programming questions, operating systems and networking questions.