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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I applied online. I interviewed at Cisco in Jan 2022
Interview
OA and then interview process, OA was on hackerrank, could not clear the OA. DSA problems + mcq related to core engineer subjects like os, cn, dbms, sql queries were asked
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Cisco in Mar 2022
Interview
the opening was for C/Python developer 1-2 year exp
there were 3 tech interview rounds. They will prefer you to work in C basically project is on embedded. you should know the languages they will tell you to code in online compiler.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Total 3 Technical interview after clearing Hackerank test
Python: interview questions, trees, linked list, string , Adv concepts of Pythons
C: Basics
OS: Memory allocation in c
Basics of Networking
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Cisco
Interview
Had 3 rounds.
First was the coding test involving 3 questions wrt data structures and algorithms
interview with a software engineer with live coding about algorithms and data structures.
interview with a network engineer about network models and network policies in each layer.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Algorithms and data structures based
Network policies and network models