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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 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.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Senior Product Manager 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 Mar 2009 in San Jose, CA (took 4+ weeks)
Very professional, everyone seemed nice, 1/2 day type of interviews. My advice would be to negotiate as much as possible up front since they dont really do yearly raises.
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Negotiation Details
nothing, Cisco had it all figured out no options, take it or leave it
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The interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.
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Strategic Program Manager at Cisco Systems
Posted Dec 16, 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 Dec 2011 in San Jose, CA (took 4+ weeks)
My resume was sent to HR with an employee referral and generated a call from a recruiter. I passed the phone screen and was told an interview would be scheduled with the hiring manager. This took one month. Had interview with manager but was told the decision would be put off until January.
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I got the interview through an Employee Referral and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a Background Check.
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Financial Analyst at Cisco Systems
Posted Dec 15, 2011
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5.0
Very Difficult Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Dec 2011 in Research Triangle Park, NC (took 4+ weeks)
Received an email from a Cisco recruiter to set a phone interview. I had my phone interview with the recruiter the next day. The recruiter was very friendly and the phone interview was easy and basic. Received another email a week later to set up for a one on one interview with the Hiring Manager. I had the interview a week later. The one on one interview was very difficult and intimidating. I knew I was not getting the job, because I couldn't answer most of the questions. The interviewer was not friendly and the interview was one hour long. I was ready to walk out from the moment we started the interview. After the one on one interview I was given a skills test. My advice is to thourougly revise your GAAP and IFRS knowledge before a Financial Analyst job interview.
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Other Details
I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Skills Test.
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Software Engineer at Cisco Systems
Posted Dec 15, 2011
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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 Dec 2011 in San Jose, CA (took 1 week)
The first round consisted of a technical screen which didnt have any programming. There were a few behavioural questions, one reasoning based question(given a long sentence and was asked what was wrong with that sentence) and some technical questions about virtualization,cloud computing,threads etc.
Then i was selected for a continous 5hr webex session with 5 interviewers.The first interviewers didnot turn up for 1hr 20 min.Second and Third went well.Fourth wasnt available too.So they sadi they would reschedule the other interviews. But they had sent a reject in just like an hour and a half.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Software Engineer III at Cisco Systems
Posted Dec 13, 2011
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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 2010 in San Jose, CA (took 6 days)
It was very similar to any other big company
Negotiation Details
I din't negotiate well
Other Details
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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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.
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Other Details
The interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Group/Panel Interview.
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IT Analyst Intern at Cisco Systems
Posted Nov 25, 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 Oct 2011 in Raleigh, NC (took 4+ weeks)
I applied on the university website and was invited to have an interview. The night before my interview I attended a Cisco networking event to casually get to know the recruiters. The recruiters were extremely friendly and talking to them ahead of time allowed me to feel more comfortable during my interview.
My interview was with a IT manager and a current IT intern. There were no technical questions and it felt like we all were just having a conversation. It probably was my most laid back and fun interviews because I didn't feel intimated.
A week after my interview I received an email stating that the recruiters were impressed with my qualifications and that they would get back to me as soon as possible. While some of my friends received rejections letters a week after the interview.
3 weeks after my interview I received an email asking for my information to conduct a background check.
A month after my interview I officially received an internship offer.
Interview Questions
Negotiation Details
N/A
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The interview consisted of a Group/Panel Interview and a Background Check.
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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.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Human Resources Partner at Cisco Systems
Posted Nov 23, 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 in San Jose, CA (took 4+ weeks)
Recruiter contacted me after sending in resume. 1-1 phone interview with recruiter. Recruiter shared they would next share with hiring manager and if interested would contact me on next steps. 1-1 by phone with hiring manager followed by 1 interview by phone with peer and 1 in person interview with another individual on the team. Recruiter and HR support team setting up interviews etc. were always timely and kept in touch very well every step which was a very pleasant surprise :-) .
Everyone from recruiter to HR support folks and interviewers were excellent - some behaviorial type interview questions but primarily conversations to understand depth and breadth of what I brought to the table as well as what they were seeking. Work culture appeared to be very people orientated and I have heard positive reviews of the culture from others.
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