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Updated Jan 23, 2012 – Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates.
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Engineering at Cisco Systems
Posted Jan 23, 2012
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Jul 2010 (took 2 days)
Interview process was objective and to bring out the capabilities of the indiviual
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Engineering at Cisco Systems
Posted Jan 4, 2012
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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
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.
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Engineering at Cisco Systems
Posted May 19, 2011
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Feb 2011 (took a day)
I spoke with the interviewer for about 20-30 minutes. The interview covered my general background, availability, and coding knowledge. There were a couple syntax questions, a couple networking questions, and a couple code questions. The code questions required e-mail access. These questions would have a sample bit of code and the interviewer would ask if it is correct.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Engineering at Cisco Systems
Posted Mar 15, 2011
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2.0
Easy Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Feb 2011 (took a day)
received a mail from the company asking for a time slot to schedule a phone interview for a internship position. The interview lasted for 25 mins and went well.
Very easy technical questions on networking and many question on my prior wrk exp and many behavioral questions were asked
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I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Engineering at Cisco Systems
Posted Jan 10, 2011
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2.0
Easy Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Declined Offer
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Interviewed Jan 2010 (took a day)
The interviewer asked basic questions about simple programming concepts, particularly fundamental data structures and the like. This was geared towards ability to understand what it is that a programming language can accomplish. It was NOT a test of advanced understanding of programming concepts such as algorithms or dynamic programming or any such thing. It was very straightforward. Interns in the Cisco Choice program are hired based on this and all interns that meet the minimum GPA requirements are given a very high paying offer.
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I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview, a Skills Test and a Background Check.
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Engineering at Cisco Systems
Posted Dec 14, 2010
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Jan 2008 (took 1 week)
First half of the day is interviews with various members of the group. Consisted of a large room with many interviews all presence and you rotate to different table every fifteen minutes. After the interview is done, the rest of the day is a tour of the city and at the end of the process, we reviewed the next step and what to expect if there is an offer.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.
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Engineering at Cisco Systems
Posted Nov 10, 2010
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2.0
Easy Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Nov 2010 in San Jose, CA (took 4+ weeks)
I first had an On Campus interview with a former graduate from my school that currently works for Cicso Systems. I then got an e-mail saying that I was accepted to a 2nd round interview a few weeks later.
Interview Questions
When was the last time you worked in a group?
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I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview and a Personality Test.
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Engineer at Cisco Systems
Posted Oct 19, 2010
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Oct 2010 in San Jose, CA (took 2+ weeks)
The interview process was very confusing; the recruiter kept forgetting to notify me or the interviewers of the right time, planning was all mixed up. I got two exactly the same interviews with all the same questions, while one of the parts / topics of the interviews mentioned before by the recruiter in the beginning, seemed to be forgotten in the process. Finally, I got a lot of very 'strange' questions, that didn't concern any particular knowledge, nor experience, but seemed to serve just to confuse me. So I was asked many times why I wanted to work for Google, but with this very suspicious style of asking it, as if I was actually hiding secretly not willing to work for Google.
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I got the interview through an Employee Referral and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.
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Engineering at Cisco Systems
Posted Sep 6, 2010
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Sep 2010 in Bangalore (India) (took a day)
it was a campus interview and contained 3 round of techa and 1 hr round. Company asked around all question from area of interest of candidate.
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I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a Skills Test and a Personality Test.
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Engineering at Cisco Systems
Posted Aug 20, 2010
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2.0
Easy Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Received and Declined Offer
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Interviewed Dec 2008 in San Jose, CA (took 1 week)
was contacted by a recruiter who found my resume online. Hesitant to deal with me since i was an outstation candidate. But it so happened i was going to be in town around that period and so managed to get an interview scheduled for that period. Walked in and waited for a while before getting to meet the hiring manager. Had a 30 minute one on one that was more of a personality/aptitude test rather than a technical interview. I thought i did a pretty good job but was informed the following day that i was rejected. Luckily i aced another interview the following day at another company. The day after i received a mail that i had actually been selected at cisco and that they mistakenly sent me a rejection letter. But i was happy with the other position and declined the offer.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.
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