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Updated Feb 10, 2012 – Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates.
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Intern at Cisco Systems
Posted Feb 10, 2012
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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 Aug 2010 in San Jose, CA (took 2 weeks)
first got a 1:1 interview on campus. asked behavior questions such as team work, problem solving. also asked some technical questions. then got a phone interview from the hiring manager. got the offer within 2 weeks.
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Negotiation Details
not negotiate
Other Details
I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.
Helpful Interview?
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No
Inappropriate?
Intern at Cisco Systems
Posted Dec 20, 2011
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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 2009 (took 1 week)
I met the person who later became my manager at the career fair in my school. She liked my resume and scheduled me for 1:1 interview in my school. The interview went well. Some questions were technical and some were behavioral. They called me one week later to schedule a phone interview. The phone interview was like an orientation and some simple technical questions. One week later, I was offered the job
Interview Questions
Other Details
The interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Background Check.
Helpful Interview?
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No
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Intern at Cisco Systems
Posted Dec 19, 2011
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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 Feb 2011 (took a day)
The manager was very positive and upbeat. It was a fairly routine interview with many "deep dives" into my past accomplishments and how that would translate and benefit Cisco. I found common ground with the interviewer in order to make a connection to better explain my skill set as well as the skills I was acquiring at school. I did not feel as if this were a high pressure interview or as if the interviewer thought they were superior. The interviewer was very receptive to my questions and answered thoroughly.
Interview Questions
Other Details
I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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No
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Intern at Cisco Systems
Posted Dec 2, 2011
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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 Oct 2011 in San Jose, CA (took a day)
Recruiting at my local university. Met with the division manager that was hiring. Accepted my resume. Called me to schedule an interview on location. Once arrived was interviewed by 3 people individually, all engineers i'd be working with. First person asked me general questions about my past projects in electrical engineering and past internship experiences and how that helped me or what I learned. next one asked me about metastability and also about past projects. Last one asked me about c++ coding structures and how I would design a loop to go over an array of some sort. I can't remember too well. He also asked about Design verification generalities as to how I would check for errors on a basic calculator that was giving a wrong answer. Was thrown off by the simplicity of it but if you think about it he was looking at how I would go about the process, he didn't expect me to really know how to fix a simple calculator. He was trying to see how my thought process was in design verification mostly. Interesting interview process to say the least. It wasn't difficult but it wasn't the easiest either.
Interview Questions
Other Details
The interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Group/Panel Interview.
Helpful Interview?
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Inappropriate?
Intern at Cisco Systems
Posted Nov 25, 2011
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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 Nov 2011 (took 2 weeks)
A manager called me to schedule a phone interview time for the next day. He called me back at the set time and conducted the interview. It was considerably less formal than most interviews and almost conversational.
Interview Questions
Other Details
I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
Helpful Interview?
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No
Inappropriate?
Intern at Cisco Systems
Posted Feb 16, 2011
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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 Feb 2011 in San Jose, CA (took a day)
I applied at the school's career website. And Cisco come to school for an on-campus interview. It took about 50 minutes. They started with a programming question: please write code to compute x^x without using multiple. And then they asked a lot of resume questions and behavioral questions. All these questions could be easy if you understand the details of your past projects and make some mock interview practice before you go to the Cisco interview.
Interview Questions
Other Details
I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview, a Skills Test, a Personality Test and a Background Check.
Helpful Interview?
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Intern at Cisco Systems
Posted Nov 1, 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 Feb 2010 in San Jose, CA (took a day)
Asked many personal questions followed by technical questions. Questions vary from interview to interview.
Interview Questions
Other Details
The interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview, a Skills Test and a Personality Test.
Helpful Interview?
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No
Inappropriate?
Intern at Cisco Systems
Posted Aug 5, 2010
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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 Aug 2009 in San Jose, CA (took a day)
Had on on-campus interview. Went through my resume, asked about my projects. Then went on to ask some HR type questions and that was it.
Interview Questions
Negotiation Details
No negotiation , only if you have a competing offer do they negotiate
Other Details
The interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.
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Intern at Cisco Systems
Posted Jul 20, 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 Mar 2010 (took 2+ weeks)
I went through 2 rounds of interviews. The first interview was on campus and had two local employees interview me with traditional behavioral interview questions. (Tell me about a time when...).
The second interview was with a senior manager and to be held on the phone. Unfortunately the guy did not show up for the call. I contacted the recruiter / HR rep to see what had happened, and they rescheduled me for another time, with sincere apologies. The same senior manager interviewed me in the second scheduled call with similar behavioral questions, but never apologized for not showing the first time or even mentioned the rescheduling to any degree.
Overall, I really liked the company. It did come across as though they were either no organized, or the senior manager had better things to do than interview candidates.
Interview Questions
Reason for Declining
For an internship, if the company can't even mount the effort to care about my interviews, how much will they care about my internship experience on the whole? I had other offers just as good, but where the company showed significant interest.
Other Details
I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a Group/Panel Interview.
Helpful Interview?
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No
Inappropriate?
Intern at Cisco Systems
Posted Mar 26, 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 Jan 2010 in Raleigh, NC (took a day)
This was just for a internship. There was a group of 3 of us, and we individually met with the hiring manager and another guy who asked us technical questions. The HM asked me about my resume details, to get a feel for me. The technical guy wanted to ascertain my depth of knowledge (the field is network engineering). Apparently I did well, they liked me best of 3.
Interview Questions
Negotiation Details
No
Other Details
The interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview, a Group/Panel Interview and a Skills Test.
Helpful Interview?
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No
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