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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Online coding test with some LC easy/mediums.
Virtual onsite consisted of three interviews:
Technical (some basic leetcode-like questions):
Was with a friendly SWE and really easy.
Resume Review (?):
Conducted with some interviewers who showed no interest in interviewing or asking me questions.
Could barely speak English and had their cameras off the whole time. I asked most of the questions. It seemed like they had already made up their mind before the interview or something.
Behavioral Interview:
Your typical behavioral questions.
Overall:
I don't know how a company lets people like these conduct interviews with no training. Very negative experience. The recruiter was also very unresponsive.
Please don't waste hours of someone's time when you have no intention of hiring them.
I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Cisco
Interview
I had 4 rounds of Interviews, after the initial discussion with HR and a short MCQ involving technical questions. The first 2 rounds were technical rounds, 1st round was focused on my current project and my technical knowledge in the current project. The second round involved more generic technical questions. Followed by a manager discussion and HR discussion.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
I was interviewed for the front-end developer position. The questions were mostly revolving around the technologies they mentioned in JD. For me Angular and RxJs. Different operators in RxJs, advanced concepts in angular, etc.
One round of interview with a manager, and two rounds of interview with technical people. Questions about C , Python, C++, and simple networking basics.
Exercises are simple, the usual tricks about pointers.
Overall, the experience was good, although the interview is very, very long.