TAC Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Cisco with 3.4 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 83% positive. To compare, the company-average is 68% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for TAC Engineer roles take an average of 19 days to get hired, when considering 13 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 TAC Engineer according to 13 Glassdoor interviews include:
One on one interview: 19%
Group panel interview: 14%
Phone interview: 14%
Skills test: 12%
Presentation: 12%
Background check: 10%
Drug test: 5%
Personality test: 5%
Other: 5%
IQ intelligence test: 5%
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interview was simple three tech rounds and one managerial round followed by HR round and they took a month to come back to me and gave a joining date of 1 month ahead
it was 3 tec round. and 1 manager round.
all questions were related to the scenario bases on networking.
topics: VPN/ Proxy/ Firewall/ and basic networking
manager round was very easy
Registered via Cisco ideathon. Three rounds of interview.
Technical, managerial, HR rounds.
All questions were easy to medium technical round had lot of questions and 2 DSA questions.
Managerial was about few situational questions.
Interview with direct manager and few other senior engineers from the team. Engineers focused on technical side about various OSI layers. Manager's questions were more behavioural about managing difficult situations and coming up with new ideas.
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Question 1
Scenario based questions as well as troubleshooting problems. Was given a scenario where traffic could reach from one host to another hosts which are connected via a series of switches and routers. Was asked to walk through how I would troubleshoot the given problem.