Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Cisco with 2.9 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 65% positive. To compare, the company-average is 68% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Engineer roles take an average of 15 days to get hired, when considering 665 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Cisco overall takes an average of 27 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Cisco as a Software Engineer according to 665 Glassdoor interviews include:
One on one interview: 24%
Phone interview: 22%
Skills test: 15%
Group panel interview: 10%
Background check: 9%
Presentation: 7%
Personality test: 6%
IQ intelligence test: 3%
Drug test: 3%
Other: 1%
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I applied through college or university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Cisco (San Jose, CA) in Oct 2017
Interview
It was an on-campus interview. The interviewer was a 20 minutes late but over all it was an average interviewing experience. My interviewer was keen to know what my contributions were to several group projects.
They asked me to solve 2-sum and then 4 interviews just about my experience with technical questions. It was basically pretty straightforward, just like any interview. It wasn't extremely technical, but I think the process depends on which team you are interviewing for.
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Cisco (Chicago, IL)
Interview
March 13th; Took a hackerrank exam, 3 easy-med leetcode DSAs. One was rotating a matrix and the other was a binary search. And the third was a basic sql. Did not hear back until July.
Standard panel, very simple leetcodes. reverse linked list kind of vibe s . I was literarly asked about how a linked list is structured and reversing it. there was almost no friction which I was shocked by one of the reason I did not accept