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Updated Apr 26, 2012 – Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates.
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Engineering at Cisco Systems
Posted Sep 6, 2010
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3.0
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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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Engineer at Cisco Systems
Posted May 24, 2010
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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 Aug 2008 (took 1+ week)
I applied the position on the company's website, and got an email from the company's HR. Then I was arranged 7 phones interviews in a two-day period. The interviewers are nice and friendly. The questions they asked were not that difficult. I did not get the on-site interview. I was told later my feedback was good, but the job was finally given to an internal transfer.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Engineer at Cisco Systems
Posted May 6, 2010
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Received and Declined Offer
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Interviewed May 2010 (took a day)
Very crazy and disorganized process. Not sure whether problems were with recruiter or company, but appointments kept getting changed and canceled at the last minute. Had difficulty reading people during presentation. Recruiter says that was a problem with others.
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I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, a Group/Panel Interview and a Presentation.
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Engineer at Cisco Systems
Posted Mar 30, 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 Mar 2010 (took 2 weeks)
First applied online to the company. A phone interview resulted. The interview began with a few behavioral questions such as my interests in the position and my former jobs. The interviewer asked what I did at my last job and why I left. Then the interview turned to technical questions such as what software I know and worked with. At the end I asked several questions about what he does and the work environment.
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I Applied Online.
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Engineer at Cisco Systems
Posted Feb 18, 2010 — 1 of 1 people found this helpful
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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 Jan 2010 (took 3 weeks)
There were 3 interviews, all were technical interviews. I was progressively interviewed by more senior members of the team. My resume was the key to their questions - a candidate must know in great detail all that he/she mentions on the resume. Fundamental protocol knowledge is very important for engineering positions.
The interviewers were very straight-forward and were not trying to play any tricks like doubting by correct answers. They actively explained the project and their expectations.
Later in the hiring process, they were very considerate of the request/s that I made.
Interview Questions
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Explain how MPLS works
And specific questions about events in each step of IKE negotiation.
Negotiation Details
I did not negotiate, I am happy with the offer.
Other Details
I got the interview through an Employee Referral and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a Group/Panel Interview and a Background Check.
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Engineering at Cisco Systems
Posted Jan 19, 2010 — 2 of 2 people found this helpful
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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 Dec 2008 (took a day)
For a college co-op (engineering support) position: Manager and senior engineer asked standard questions, and had a short technical quiz/worksheet. Just knowing the basics from lab classes was enough to do very well. I'm already used to thinking outloud to show that I can work out a problem even if I don't really know the answer per say.
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I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a Group/Panel Interview, a Skills Test and a Background Check.
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Engineering at Cisco Systems
Posted Jan 4, 2010 — 2 of 2 people found this helpful
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Received and Declined Offer
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Interviewed Jan 2008 in Milpitas, CA (took 2 days)
Had couple telephonic conversations about my resume, interests, and to improve my understanding about the position, reporting and the company. Questions on my resume and interests were pretty standard like - What different technologies I have used, Why I wanted to move, What I'm looking forward to work on, My dream job in next 5 yrs, My educational interests etc.
On site interviews were all 1:1 with 4 sr.engineers, 2 dev managers, 1 qa manager, and finally a Sr.Director. Interview was pretty technical and grilling. People were really nice. They were looking at my approach than the exactness of my answers. Their questions were highly adaptive and deeply conceptual.
Interview Questions
What design changes would you suggest to improve the routing-speed?
(After I gave out an answer - )
What else are the alternative ways (Good or Bad) of achieving this? Give the major pros and cons or those approaches.
Something like - A mouse and xxx (maybe tortoise) started running in opposite directions on a 100 mile highway. Mouse made stops for this and that, and some numbers for times-spent. These numbers are some relative to those of tortoise too. The final question is how many times would the mouse have ran each way, before the tortoise completed one round.
Other Details
I got the interview through an Employee Referral and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, a Presentation, an IQ/Intelligence Test, a Skills Test and a Background Check.
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Engineer at Cisco Systems
Posted Nov 15, 2009 — 0 of 2 people found this helpful
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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 Apr 2007 in San Jose, CA (took 2 days)
first I got referred by my friend in Cisco, then I got a telephone inteview, and you know it is not hard for me since I have been in this field for several years. Then I got the on-site, several manager/engineer asked me questions about my former job/skill/backgound and so on. And they seemed satisfied with my skill, so eventually I got the job. That is it.
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I got the interview through an Employee Referral and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, a Group/Panel Interview, a Skills Test and a Background Check.
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Engineering at Cisco Systems
Posted May 6, 2009 — 0 of 2 people found this helpful
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1.0
Very Easy Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Apr 2007 in San Jose, CA (took 1 week)
Pretty easy interview. Just chatted about my work at school.
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I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a Personality Test.
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