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Engineering Manager at Cisco Systems India
Accepted Offer – Interviewed in Bangalore (India) Apr 2009 – Reviewed Jan 23, 2013
Interview Details – Three rounds of interview - one technical and two related to management.
Negotiation Details – Around the base pay - excluding the benefits during foreign travel.
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Software Engineer at Cisco Systems India
Accepted Offer – Interviewed in Bangalore (India) – Reviewed Jan 21, 2013
Interview Details – HR -> 4 technical rounds - Manger round - HR interview
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NCE at Cisco Systems India
Accepted Offer – Interviewed in Bangalore (India) Jan 2012 – Reviewed Jan 18, 2013
Interview Details –
Round 1: Written paper on data structures, networking,electronics and aptitude.
Round 2: Technical questions on networking, c++ and data structures.Qustions were intended to analyse my knowledge on the defferent layers in networking and how the data flows from one layer to another.
Round 3: In depth technical questions on networking and domain specific qustions
Round 4: HR
Interview Question – Network Address Translation lookup Table Answer Question
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Customer Support Engineer at Cisco Systems India
Accepted Offer – Reviewed Jan 5, 2013
Interview Details – About 4 rounds of interviews. The first one is telephonic technical. The next two are face to face technical rounds mostly around the basics. The final on is with HR
Interview Question – This is what cisco brings to your plate. What do you bring to Cisco's? Answer Question
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Software Engineer III at Cisco Systems India
Accepted Offer – Interviewed in Bangalore (India) – Reviewed Jan 5, 2013
Interview Details –
Interview process comprises of multiple rounds. Initial screening round was through telephonic interview and later followed by multiple one on one rounds at the Cisco Campus in Bangalore.
Since the position was for dev test engineer, so interview rounds were focused on software validation concepts, software programming as well automation using scripting languages. Automation interview was more focused toward automation in networking domain. Subsequently interview by dev test manager was also done and it was also an entire technical round.
Interview Question – There were multiple projects with in the same group, and question was asked which group would you prefer to work and why? Answer Question
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Software Engineer II at Cisco Systems India
Accepted Offer – Interviewed in Bangalore (India) Jun 2008 – Reviewed Dec 31, 2012
Interview Details – Members of the team to which you are applying interview you. Typically 3 or 4 people interview you. I was asked mostly about my past experience. I was also asked to write a C program for a simple question. Knowing someone in the company to forward your resume helps.
Interview Question – Nothing unexpected or difficult. Answer Question
Negotiation Details – I did not negotiate.
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Hardware Engineer at Cisco Systems India
No Offer – Interviewed in Bangalore (India) Dec 2012 – Reviewed Dec 25, 2012
Interview Details – 1 written, 2 technical rounds and HR
Interview Question – Keyboard interfacing, FIFO, Audio file size depends on what View Answer
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Network Consulting Engineer at Cisco Systems India
Accepted Offer – Interviewed in Bangalore (India) Nov 2009 – Reviewed Dec 15, 2012
Interview Details –
DAY1/Round 1:
1. Telephonic Interview with HR to check command over English and clarity of thought process.
2. Written exam ( Part 1: general aptitude Part 2: Cisco/Networking Related)
DAY 2/Round 2:
Telephonic Interview:
Combined Technical interview (basics of Networking and based on your CV) + HR interview.
DAY3/Round 3:
-In person Technical Interview with hiring Managers
-HR interview
-Senior Manager Interview
You pass all of the above --> Offer letter :D
Interview Question –
Live Switch and IP phone was shown and asked to explain one of the LAN concepts.
Asked about VPNs and their requirement.
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Software Engineer at Cisco Systems India
Accepted Offer – Reviewed Dec 13, 2012
Interview Details – number of intervies 1 written 2 technical and then technical and hr interview.interviewers were cool and supportive
Interview Question – computer network management Answer Question
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Software Engineer II at Cisco Systems India
Accepted Offer – Interviewed in Mumbai (India) Aug 2012 – Reviewed Dec 4, 2012
Interview Details – I was interested in the profile of an IT analyst . So my interviews were more towards problem solving abilities and the ways to approach a problem. Networking concepts, programming and the latest trends in the technology were discussed. Then I was given a problem statement regarding the transfer of data from the client side to the server side with a firewall in between.
Interview Question – Asked me about latest improvements in android OS Answer Question
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