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Consulting System Engineer (CSE) at Cisco Systems
Posted Nov 18, 2009
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4.0
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Mar 2008 in Paris (took 2 weeks)
Initial contacted via the recruiting team (outsourced by Cisco but working full time for Cisco)
First phone interview of about 1 hour. First question is whether I am just looking at the market or really looking at changing job. The recruiter asks few questions about the resume but mainly asks about current job and what I'd like to do next. Also he is explaining the Cisco recruiting process (about 7 interviews and which people from which department)
Second interview was face2face with the recruiter: about 1.5 hours, going all the words of the resume, basically verifying that it is consistent.
Third interview was face2face with an SE manager. More informal, he was trying to see how I could describe technical challenges and capacity of drawing and explaining scenarios using a whiteboard.
Fourth Interview was with a CSE, very technical interview
Fith was supposed to be with the Director of the department. I that point I had already signed with another company so I had to stop at this stage.
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I got the interview through an Employee Referral and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Skills Test.
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Engineer at Cisco Systems
Posted Nov 15, 2009
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3.0
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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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IT Manager at Cisco Systems
Posted Nov 10, 2009
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4.0
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Nov 2009 (took 1 week)
Very professional. Interviewed by a panel/group of 4 existing IT managers. Asked many of frequently asked interview questions in many of the books in a different form. More of the open ended questions to see how you deal with difficult situations & changes & management skills.
Overall, very positive experience and professional, the interviewers are nice and not trying to embarrass you but to get to know you more.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a Group/Panel Interview.
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Software Engineer I at Cisco Systems
Posted Nov 4, 2009
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3.0
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Oct 2008 in San Jose, CA (took 2 days)
I got an interview on campus. Basic questions about myself and the company: "Tell me about yourself", "How do I know if you are the right person for my company?"...No technical
Then 1 month later I got an invitation including hotel and flight ticket to San Jose for 2 days.
It started with a dinner with Cisco employees.
The next days, we are divided into 3-person groups. Each group will be interview individually by 3 other engineers. They basically asked about my group projects. Gave some technical questions about Java like "What is inheritance?". The last guy will ask harder questions in C programming skill "Write a code to reverse the words in a string?" "Optimize it"
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I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, a Skills Test and a Personality Test.
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Manager at Cisco Systems
Posted Nov 1, 2009
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3.0
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Aug 2008 in San Jose, CA (took 3 days)
Had an initial phone interview with the hiring manager. Then had in-person interviews with four people and another round with two more people. They were good at providing a schedule of who I would be speaking with but seemed to have a bit of trouble scheduling everyone for one day instead of two. Overall, the interviews were average in tone, questions asked and initial impressions. I did however find it surprising that I got to my interview to be told, the hiring manager would be changing and they were not sure who the position I was interviewing for would report to or what the role would do exactly. Not sure why they had me interview for a role they were not sure they needed or really knew how to use. Overall, it was interview practice since the role really didn't seem to be a real one.
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Senior Software Engineer at Cisco Systems
Posted Oct 31, 2009
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2.0
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Oct 2009 in Santa Clara, CA (took a day)
I see the position on the Cisco career website. Submitted my resume and fill out the forms. Got a phone interview a couple weeks later and then schedule a on-site next week. It is a technical interview and I did a lot of white-board coding. The questions are not difficult (like reverse a link list). But the manager pays a lot attention to the details. For example, how you optimize a couple statement and what variable naming scheme you use. Overall it is not a tough interview. I think I am qualified for the position but I am not the type of developer the manager is looking for.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a Skills Test.
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Program Manager at Cisco Systems
Posted Oct 31, 2009
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2.0
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Oct 2009 in San Jose, CA (took 2 weeks)
The initial contact came from a recruiter at a body-shop. They conducted a 30 minute phone screen, and referred me to Cisco - the position was a 6 month contract. There were several rounds of phone interviews with several manager and director level folks in the team, all 1:1. The questions were really softball "tell me about yourself" type questions. The phone interviews lasted anywhere from 15 minutes to an hour. The people were all really friendly, although by the last interview I could tell they were just going through the motions, they had already selected someone else.
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I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Software Engineer Intern at Cisco Systems
Posted Oct 12, 2009
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3.0
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Nov 2007 (took 2 weeks)
The company took all the students interviewing for intern or full-time positions out to dinner the night before interviews started, the diner was meant as a casual meet the interviewer event. The next day I interviewed with an experienced engineer, he mainly asked me behavioral questions followed by a brain teaser and a probability question.
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The interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.
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Senior Manufacturing Program Manager at Cisco Systems
Posted Oct 4, 2009
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5.0
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Oct 2007 in San Jose, CA (took 2 days)
They were very intelligent and asked very good questions. The questions were very probing and required very strong responses. The questions ranged from how I delt with a situation and my understanding of business management. I was offered the job the next day.
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Cisco pays fair salaries so it was not an issue.
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IT Analyst at Cisco Systems
Posted Sep 15, 2009
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3.0
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Sep 2009 in Raleigh, NC (took a day)
Initial interview with the hiring manager. Focused on more detailed explanation of the position, since the posting was quite vague and broad based. Once the position was explained we discussed my background, strengths, and examples of relevant accomplishments. Ideally, the manager is looking for a more technical person, so my background, MBA/marketers the past 6 years and previously a mechanical engineer, didn't ideally fit the need for a software engineer with at least some business background.
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