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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It was well laid out interview process. The recruiter contacted me with the job requirements and scheduled the interview for next week. The interview was good not too tough. One should know the fundamentals of C#, .Net Framework core, MVC, Entity Framework core. There were a couple of questions Rest APIs, HTTP methods, filtering in Rest APIs. And lastly few questions from DS on String manipulation and Arrays.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1. What are collections in C#? What are the advantages of Non-Generic collections over Generic collections?
2. What are early binding and late binding?
3. How can we implement caching at the client side for Redbus application?
4. What are various types of caching?
5. Discussion on micro-services architecure.
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Cisco in Dec 2021
Interview
There were 3 rounds.
1) OA
2) Technical (OOPS)
3) Technical.
Interviewer in 3 round was not so good. She was laughing during the interview and feels a bit humiliating. Else everything was nice hr and other people i interacted with.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1. Design a message queue
2. Regex
3. Find the numbers with 2 in a range of n numbers without converting the numbers in to string.
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Cisco in Dec 2021
Interview
As usual screening and then marching with a hiring manager and then questions relating past experience and course work. Assessment is quite long and average, process is slow as well.