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%
Background check: 25%
Presentation: 25%
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I have applied through referral. Initial screening round followed by four technical rounds HR interview. Overall the interview process is okay.
In that 2 round of coding interview mainly based on arrays, linked list and on preliminary data structures.
Phone interview occured. Then met up witH HR at the hotel lobby, he prepared me with who I would be meeting with that day and we went to the site. Meeting at the job site with the technical team went smoothly and they asked technical questions.
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Question 1
Tell us what projects you have done in Network Management?
I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Cisco (Cary, NC) in Apr 2023
Interview
HackerRank like questions. Two of them on the very easy side, testing that you know fundamentals of coding languages and finally one hard problem to test your problem solving skills. There is also a behavioral and team interview process if you pass the screening questions.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
One of the coding questions was to determine the shortest number of moves for a chess piece to get of the chess board given that the chess board could vary in size. Ex. 6x6 or 5v5