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Software QA Engineer III at Cisco Systems
No Offer – Reviewed May 20, 2013 New
Interview Details – Applied online, got an email from HR for a phone interview. The interview was very simple, covering topics from my resume. But never heard back from the HR.
Interview Question – About a project that I did 6 years back. I believe, the interviewer wanted to ensure, if I knew enough about the projects that I had mentioned in my resume. Answer Question
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Senior Software Engineer at Cisco Systems
Accepted Offer – Reviewed May 16, 2013 New
Interview Details – First round was on-campus interview. Followed by on-site interview with 4 engineers and manager. Plenty of white boarding for clean and commented code, some brain teasers, questions revolved around arrays and linked lists. Lunch with the hiring manager towards evening. I found out about the decision in 2 weeks
Interview Question – How to reverse a linked list View Answer
Negotiation Details – Not much
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Software Engineer IV at Cisco Systems
Accepted Offer – Reviewed May 13, 2013 New
Interview Details –
Through internship, by phone (I was oversea)
In person in my counry
Interview Question –
C code general questions
what is the "static" keyword for in C
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Negotiation Details – It was for an internship, no much negotiation
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Software Engineer at Cisco Systems
No Offer – Interviewed in Boxborough, MA May 2013 – Reviewed May 9, 2013 New
Interview Details – 2 Phone Interview. 1 - HR, 1 - Hiring Manager
Interview Questions
- Given 3 systems: system 1 reaches 0xFF, then system 2 increment by 1. Everytime system 2 increments, system 3 would fetch the package. When can there be a problem? What is the problem with this system? How can we fix this? Answer Question
- They will give you the most random questions regarding DSP. Answer Question
- Write and derive any C programming Object on the board? Answer Question
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IT Analyst at Cisco Systems
Accepted Offer – Interviewed in Research Triangle Park, NC Oct 2011 – Reviewed May 8, 2013 New
Interview Details – To get hired at Cisco you have to go through a process starting with the info session then career fair. From there you will be assigned a interview time if you are a good candidate. There are two interviews one in person another over WebEx. Both will be similar Cisco wants to make sure you fit its culture and you have a good knowledge base so show some personality and brains.
Interview Question – For analyst its more so how you work with others so expect a lot of behavioral questions regarding personality in groups. Answer Question
Negotiation Details – You can negotiate start date easily for the most part. Now as far as Salary, and location they both can be negotiated but could hurt you if you are being to greedy. East coast students asking to be placed in San Jose could cause more problems.
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Software Engineer at Cisco Systems
No Offer – Interviewed in San Francisco, CA Nov 2012 – Reviewed May 7, 2013
Interview Details – I had an on-campus interview, went pretty good and was mostly analytical questions and algorithms questions. Then I had a phone interview, very technical and detailed, but the guy was helpful. At the end, the HR said you've got positive feedback on your interviews and we'll let you know when we've openings, which they didn't
Interview Question – Nothing surprising, but the guy did ask about everything related to networking fundamentals and C++ Answer Question
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Intern at Cisco Systems
No Offer – Interviewed in University, WA Mar 2013 – Reviewed May 5, 2013
Interview Details – Applied to job through school provided job search web site. Interviewed on campus for 30 min. The interviewer mainly asked about what experience I have and how I handle problems associated with the team of engineers I work with on campus. The first question asked was how routers work, so know your networking systems.
Interview Question – I did not expect so many questions regarding problem mitigation with my team of engineers. Answer Question
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Director at Cisco Systems
Accepted Offer – Reviewed May 3, 2013
Interview Details – At least 5 - 6 interviews
Interview Question – Why Cisco? View Answer
Negotiation Details – Asked for more stock options
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Project Manager at Cisco Systems
No Offer – Interviewed in San Jose, CA – Reviewed May 2, 2013
Interview Details – Its st. forward you get call for scheduling an interview and then two rounds of telephonic interview and then onsite interview for complete day. Post that HR will call and discuss about the compensation.
Interview Question – real time scenarios and how did you overcome the difficult situation. Answer Question
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Software Engineer at Cisco Systems
Accepted Offer – Reviewed Apr 30, 2013
Interview Details –
Initial phone interview lasted for an hour. Interview was based on webex. Questions involved basic networking and programming related like convert hton to ntoh
Was called onsite. Had 5 rounds total. First round was about simple C programming - find the mistake in the code type questions. Second and third rounds went into trees, graphs, and core OS and networking.
Fourth round was all about networking. Was made to write a socket program and then to implement a load balancer using pthreads. I didnt remember the exact apis but wrote the pseudocode
Interview Question – Design and implement a load balancer in C. View Answer
Negotiation Details – had another offer so tried to negotiate and they agreed
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