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Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates (updated Jan 25, 2010).
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Customer Support Engineer at Cisco Systems
Posted Jan 25, 2010
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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 Nov 2009 in Research Triangle Park, NC (took a day)
Phone interview with Cisco's head of Customer Support Engineering. This is an entry level position so most of the questions had to do with my course work in school. The interviewer was very helpful in positive and negative feedback regarding my experience and overall situation regarding the position.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Engineering at Cisco Systems
Posted Jan 19, 2010 — 1 of 1 people found this helpful
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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 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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Software Engineer at Cisco Systems
Posted Jan 21, 2010
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2.0
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Nov 2009 in San Jose, CA (took 1 week)
Pretty decent experience. Just consisted of a phone interview followed by a 1-on-1 interview. This was for the Cisco Choice Program. Very friendly person. Interview wasn't too technical. More like a conversation really. Not too bad experience overall!
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.
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Business Development Manager at Cisco Systems
Posted Jan 19, 2010
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3.0
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Jul 2009 in San Jose, CA (took 2 months)
I would say the process is a little long. Part of it is the tax of a large company where there is a dedicated recruiter for each position and oftentimes, they do not coordinate well with the hiring manager. Cisco was going through a hiring freeze for a while so that made the process start and stop several times. Advice is to get in direct contact with the hiring manager because relying of the recruiter is not the most effective.
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Negotiation Details
Limited negotiation (given the economic conditions)... but definitely, everything is up for negotiation.
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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 Background Check.
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Program Manager at Cisco Systems
Posted Jan 13, 2010
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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 Nov 2009 in San Jose, CA (took 3 months)
Two Phone intervierws, called in San Jose for six 1:1 interviews.
Resume based interviews, very cordial. Each interview was 45 mins. HR was svery slow to respond, and despite repeated efforts to solicit a response yes/ no from them, the process went too slow and I had to move on. HR came back after 3 months, but the process took too long- I could not wait longer for an offer, though Cisco was a preferred employer for me.
Overall, I was impressed by the cordial, informal atmosphere, yet through approach of the interviewers. But the decision process took too long.
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I got the interview through an Employee Referral and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.
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Engineer Intern at Cisco Systems
Posted Jan 13, 2010
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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 Mar 2008 (took a day)
1:1 behavioral interview.
I initially had a contact with the campus recruiter at the career fair. I obtained internship information from her and submitted my resume through through my school's career website. At the interview, the interviewer asked me questions on my past project experiences, leadership experience, challenging moments, and what I want to do in 5 years. There was no skill set test.
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IT Engineer at Cisco Systems
Posted Jan 12, 2010
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2.0
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Dec 2009 in San Jose, CA (took 6 weeks)
First interview was on campus, went well. Next at Cisco HQ, I interviewed with three different hiring managers, which also seemed to go well. Tried to work with HR about other offer deadlines, it looked like I might possibly get an offer from Cisco, but never got one in time. I eventually told them I had already accepted another offer in their last attempt to contact me regarding a position.
Overall, I wish their process was quicker, as Cisco was somewhere I've always wanted to work.
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The interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.
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Software Engineering Intern at Cisco Systems
Posted Jan 10, 2010
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2.0
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Nov 2009 (took 5 weeks)
basic resume questions. describe projects, nature of coursework, interest in Cisco, etc. Basic Java q's like access modifiers, inheritance, polymorphism, etc. interview was only 30 minutes, so there was only time for one tech. question. which was a classic-- how to reverse a linked list. Pretty chill and laid back.
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Negotiation Details
Non-negotiable.
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Engineering at Cisco Systems
Posted Jan 4, 2010 — 1 of 1 people found this helpful
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3.0
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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.
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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.
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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 Presentation, an IQ/Intelligence Test, a Skills Test and a Background Check.
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Summer Internship, Legal at Cisco Systems
Posted Jan 5, 2010
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3.0
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Received and Declined Offer
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Interviewed Jun 2008 in San Jose, CA (took 1+ week)
All the interview process was completed telephonically. Initial interview conducted by a recruiter that was not in the location of the position nor did she know what the position entailed. The follow-up interviews progressed through the hierarchy of the department and varied from a personality to a case interview.
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Reason for Declining
Did not think the personality of the department was a good fit for my career goals.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, an IQ/Intelligence Test, a Skills Test, a Personality Test and a Background Check.
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