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Financial Analyst at Cisco Systems
Posted Sep 10, 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 Jul 2008 in Milpitas, CA (took 4 weeks)
I was approached by a recruiter reviewing resumes online. I was invited to sit with the hiring manager after 2 rounds of phone interviews with several recruiters. I felt as though there was a good match for the position however they must have felt differently.
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I applied In-Person and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.
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Software Engineer IV at Cisco Systems
Posted Sep 12, 2009 — 0 of 1 people found this helpful
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2.0
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Apr 2008 in San Jose, CA (took a day)
There was no interview, I was already working as consultant and being converted to regular employee.
I got a offer letter after background check was done. Salary was accepted without negotiation.
I had to submit my immigration papers afterwards as I was still on H1b with a EAD and almost in last stages of getting green card. I reckon getting green card was still on top of my mind which kind of prevented me from negotatiating on the salary.
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Salary negotiation is a must otherwise one could end up getting paid much lower, which could result in being several years behind other folks with similar skills or even poorer skills
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Soft at Cisco Systems
Posted Sep 8, 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 Oct 2007 in San Jose, CA (took 3 weeks)
brief phone interview, followed by onsite interview with 7 members of the team including 2 managers, a tech lead and other software engineers. Received offer by phone the week after with a week time to accept/decline. The interviews were focused on technical aspects but with general questions, no specific test but generic programming/design questions on things like type of databases and multithreading.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Background Check.
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Senior Program Manager at Cisco Systems
Posted Sep 8, 2009
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4.0
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Declined Offer
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Interviewed Mar 2009 (took 3 days)
phone screen, 2 on site interviews w/ 3 to 4 people each. Followed by phone offer. Then a couple of days of discussions. Declined offer. The phone screen was from a recruiter - internal. Then a few days later they emailed and wanted to set up a on site interview. It was with three people plus the recruiter/hr person that did the initial screen. Included were the hiring manager, a potential peer, and managers from departments I would interface with. The last interview was with the VP of hardware development, VP of S/W development, and two engineers on the project.
Reason for Declining
Not as attractive as current job. Security and seniority were a consideration of current job. Also I value the current relationships. I'd have to go in and 'prove' myself all over again for a job that was not a step up from my current job.
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Software Engineer at Cisco Systems
Posted Sep 7, 2009
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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 Jan 2007 in San Jose, CA (took 5 days)
received a phone call after initial HR filtering. Had the first phone interview with HR. Was invited to the location for a complete interview. The manager had 1:1 with me and showed the working area and explained work requirements. Then there were 2 panel/group interviews with completely technical questions. I then met a few more people and answered some questions.
Was offered the position before I reached home.
Negotiation Details
I did not negotiate much, as I was in need of a job. However, I regret that decision as I already had better offers from smaller companies.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, a Group/Panel Interview and a Background Check.
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Software Engineer II at Cisco Systems
Posted Aug 18, 2009 — 1 of 1 people found this helpful
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4.0
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Aug 2007 in San Jose, CA (took 2 weeks)
1 hour phone interview. Topics were on Network concepts, Resume, projects, Operating system basics, Data structures, Algorithms and others. Overall understanding of network concepts would be helpful to clear the phone interview. Onsite interview would be all day long with 5-6 individual 1 hour interviews.
Interview Questions
How would you define bit fields in C?
What are the common IPC techniques in UNIX?
What is the difference between micro-kernel and macro-kernel?
Briefly explain the need for memory protection
Why do we need POSIX standards?
Thread synchronization and critical sections
Instruction pipelining
TCP connection establishment and tear down process
MIPS architecture and need for RISC processors in Embedded environment
C questions to check familiarity with pointer arithmetic.
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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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Application Engineer at Cisco Systems
Posted Jul 16, 2009
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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 Feb 2009 in Bangalore (took 2 days)
It is rigorous and pain stacking. They ask us networkin questions and are too tough on them. So make sure that you know TCP/IP well enough and other networking fundas well enough before going for the interview at CISCO!
Then they also ask a bit of mathematics related questions based on probability!
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The interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.
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Senior Project Manager at Cisco Systems
Posted Jun 29, 2009
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4.0
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Aug 2008 in San Jose, CA (took a day)
- Interviewed based on an internal referral.
- A PM, not the hiring mngr, was assigned the task to screen all candidates.
- I asked detailed questions about job description. Found out later the screening PM had written the job description and took my questions as a slam.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Software Engineer at Cisco Systems
Posted Jun 13, 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 Dec 2007 (took a day)
The interview process started with the on-campus screening interview. The questions were on data structure and on the projects I was working on. Then they invited me for the second round of on-site interview. The on-site interview took a whole day with three interviews and the lab tour. All interviews were technical questions and usual questions such as reverse the linked link, why do you want to work for Cisco.
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The interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview, a Skills Test and a Personality Test.
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Software Engineer at Cisco Systems
Posted Jun 4, 2009 — 2 of 2 people found this helpful
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3.0
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Feb 2009 in San Jose, CA (took a day)
No respect for any thing you did for the whole time in your career. They started off with C questions and ended with C questions. No one even cared to see what was on the resume. They just asked the questions that they were familiar with. All the C questions were from the web sites. No creativity there. None of them smiled. None of them looked happy either!
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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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