Software Engineer II 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 70% positive. To compare, the company-average is 68% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Engineer II roles take an average of 18 days to get hired, when considering 71 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 II according to 71 Glassdoor interviews include:
One on one interview: 31%
Background check: 20%
Skills test: 18%
Phone interview: 16%
Group panel interview: 7%
Personality test: 4%
IQ intelligence test: 3%
Presentation: 1%
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I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Cisco (Pune) in Jan 2012
Interview
It was a quick process, one telephonic round followed by two technical interviews onsite.
The telephonic round they asked basic stuff on C++ like polymorphism, virtual functions, how are they implemented internally.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Reversing a linked list using recursion.
Asked on previous experience on UMTS
Questions on DSA and basic Operating Systems and networking questions. Also, there was a behavioral round that covered all from my resume and gave to situations to respond accordingly. I got the interview call through GHC and it had only 2 interviews
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Questions on DSA and basic Operating Systems and networking questions.
I successfully completed the online assessment, demonstrating proficiency in all questions and test cases. However, there has been no communication or update on the interview process from the company since.