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 666 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 666 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 online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Cisco
Interview
Initial phone interview lasted for an hour. Interview was based on webex. Questions involved basic networking and programming related like convert hton to ntoh
Was called onsite. Had 5 rounds total. First round was about simple C programming - find the mistake in the code type questions. Second and third rounds went into trees, graphs, and core OS and networking.
Fourth round was all about networking. Was made to write a socket program and then to implement a load balancer using pthreads. I didnt remember the exact apis but wrote the pseudocode
I applied online. I interviewed at Cisco (San Francisco, CA)
Interview
30-minute call with a recruiter
3 hr take-home + 1 hr review (this tests your ability to use agents to build a full-stack app and then your ability to understand the generated output)
30-minute call with CTO
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How the generated app works in detail for different features
I was asked Leet code medium and hard question. There were 3 rounds including one onsite round. Answered some the resume questions as well. Also questions from database was asked.
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.