Cisco Systems Interview Questions & Reviews in Austin, TX Area
Updated Jan 4, 2012 – Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates.
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Engineering at Cisco Systems
Posted Jan 4, 2012
3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Jun 2010 in Austin, TX (took 5 days)
Went through a relatively short phone interview, followed up several days later by a series of one on one interviews with 3 different people at the company. Pretty much industry standard stuff. Over the phone it was the usual get to know you and behavioural type questions followed up by technical and riddle type stuff in the one on ones.
Interview Questions
* You have access to a 100-storey building.
* Eggs can be very hard or very fragile means it may break if dropped from the first floor or may not even break if dropped from 100 th floor.Both eggs are identical.
* You need to figure out the highest floor of a 100-storey building an egg can be dropped without breaking.
* Now the question is how many drops you need to make. You are allowed to break 2 eggs in the process
Other Details
I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.
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Software Engineer at Cisco Systems
Posted Dec 28, 2011
2.0
Easy Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Sep 2011 in Austin, TX (took a day)
They take your GPA seriously into considerations.
Then they look for systems related project experience.
Other Details
I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.
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Software Engineer at Cisco Systems
Posted May 28, 2010
3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Apr 2010 in Austin, TX (took 2 days)
Had two one hour phone interviews, one with the hiring manager, one with a technical lead. Both went well and a two day in-person interview was being scheduled. However, the day before the interview the hiring manager got in touch with me to let me know that the job req. was no longer available, but more would be opening in the next quarter. Waited until the next quarter and got my in-person interview. There was a programming test with three developers asking me questions. I ran long on the first one, the second question was based on code one of the interviewers put on the board (which had an unintentional bug), and the third one I dealt with well. Next came a one-on-one interview with another developer, but no technical questions were asked. The hiring manager was also too busy to actually interview me. At the end of the first day the hiring manager informed me he would be contacting me later that day to let me know the results. He did not get back to me until the next day to say they would not be extending me an offer.
Interview Questions
unsigned int
doit(int x)
{
unsigned int z = 0;
while (x &= (x-1)) z++;
return z;
}
Other Details
I got the interview through an Employee Referral and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Group/Panel Interview.
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Supply Chain Manager at Cisco Systems
Posted Feb 17, 2010
2.0
Easy Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Jul 2009 in Austin, TX (took 2 months)
Several 1:1 Interviews, and panel interviews. Good to plan ahead on what you think are your major accomlishments, strengths, weaknesses...examples of times you had a challenge and how you handled them...your best experience, worst experience- experiences working with teams and others...the more you can site examples the better prepared you will be.
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Negotiation Details
From my experience, it is best to see where the other person stands before starting to negotiate. Be honest. What do you expect ? then, possibly start slightly higher. In the end, hopefully the end result is a "win win"
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a Group/Panel Interview.
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