Test Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Cisco with 3.1 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 60% positive. To compare, the company-average is 68% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Test Engineer roles take an average of 19 days to get hired, when considering 12 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 Test Engineer according to 12 Glassdoor interviews include:
One on one interview: 27%
Background check: 18%
Skills test: 18%
Phone interview: 14%
Group panel interview: 9%
Personality test: 9%
Presentation: 5%
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I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Cisco in Dec 2014
Interview
I have applied and got contacted in 3 days for a phone interview, the interview is pure technical since the very beginning, it was related mainly to my experience. the interviewer was reading my resume and accordingly asking about each section and technology, he asked about into deep details about OSPF, TLDP vs RSVP-TE, vpws, vpls and L3 vrf, he focused on my testing and Automation Experience. he asked about which traffic generators i use, testing methadolgy.
I applied online. The process took 4 months. I interviewed at Cisco (Bengaluru) in Jul 2025
Interview
There are 5 rounds of interview totally,aptitude and coding, telephonic, technical round , managerial round,and later HR round which all completed in 1 day ,online coding and aptitude happened 1 and half month back..it's a actually a so delay process and much wasting time
More than 6 rounds of interviews.. but it wasn't difficult. I prepared based on the contents of the job description. The first was a screening interview with HR, and the rest were well guided by the manager. Overall, it seemed to proceed quickly, and I had several interviews a day, so I finished several rounds in a short period of time.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
There were questions about how much I understood about hardware and my software skills. Other than that, there were general questions about what I did during my gap year and why I left my previous job.
I applied through a staffing agency. I interviewed at Cisco (Bengaluru) in Jun 2023
Interview
1. there is an technical interview round where they asked questions related to oops concepts for Python Test automation interview. Questions related to Agile process . few on bug tracking and reporting process.