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Human Resources at Cisco Systems
Posted May 19, 2009 — 1 of 1 people found this helpful
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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 San Jose, CA (took 8 months)
the process itself was fine, the candidate experience was OK. What was confusing is that I was considered for at least 4 different jobs - twice the jobs were eliminated mid-process. the other two times I interviewed for one thing and was passed to another manager for another thing. it was just a bit confusing.
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I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.
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Software Engineer - QA at Cisco Systems
Posted May 18, 2009
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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)
Phone Interview - Recruiter called to schedule the time of phone interview and discuss the immigration status and such details. Nothing technical. It was followed by two phone interviews from team members . Team member interviews were very technical and also had some brain teasers thrown in.
1:1 interviews: total 6 = 1 recruiter, 4 team members and one manager. This process goes on for almost full day. Extremely technical. They will grill you on your resume, so don't even think about making things up. Longer the interviews, harder they get and better your chances of getting in. Manager's interview was fairly straightforward. Just to check if you will fit in.
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Always negotiate the level and not the salary per se. A lower salary in higher pay grade is much better than higher salary in lower pay grade. Leadership experience counts a lot and so do the project management skills.
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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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Intern at Cisco Systems
Posted May 12, 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 Nov 2007 in San Jose, CA (took 2 weeks)
phone interview, on campus interview
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I got the interview through a College or University.
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Engineering at Cisco Systems
Posted May 6, 2009
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1.0
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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 1 week)
Pretty easy interview. Just chatted about my work at school.
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I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a Personality Test.
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Financial Analyst at Cisco Systems
Posted Apr 30, 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 Mar 2009 (took 5 weeks)
interview and phone calls
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Software Engineer Intern at Cisco Systems
Posted Apr 29, 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 Sep 2008 (took 3 weeks)
I first applied through the school website for the position and I was contacted 1 week after for an on-campus interview. It was only one 30-45 minute interview, where the interviewer asked me a lot of HR questions, and some technical questions. I prepared beforehand by studying algorithms, data structures like hash tables, trees, avl trees, and linked lists. After the interview, I was contacted 2 weeks later by email, where I needed to make an appointment to talk with the recruiter about furthuring the process. When I spoke with them on the phone, they offered me the job on the spot.
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I did not really negotiate the pay because it is my first internship, and I didn't really know how to negotiate. If i was given the opportunitiy to negotiate again, I would try to get a higher salary.
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The interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.
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Channel Account Manager at Cisco Systems
Posted Apr 28, 2009
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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 Jun 2008 (took 3 weeks)
There was a screening interview with HR, then 1:1 phone interviews with eleven different people. All were scheduled individually. One person requested an in person interview after our phone interview and the in person interview was over breakfast and lasted three hours. Mostly that interviewer wanted to make sure I knew the market. The interviewers all had to fill out a form and recomend me for the job so I could go on to the next level.
I prepared for at least an hour prior to each interview.
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Negotiation Details
Make sure you know what kind of Channel Position you will get. They have different grades within the title, each with its pay scale. It was very difficult to determine which grade I was interviewing for and what the limits of the pay scale was.
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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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Sales at Cisco Systems
Posted Apr 7, 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 2009 (took 2 weeks)
Phone interview to 1:1 was within a week. Because I was an employee referral for the postion the phone interview was more of an introduction,description of the position and the hiring manager reaching out to understand my background. A 1:1 was scheduled within 2 days. I did a lot of research on the position and the market position of the product/service I was going to sell. Absolutely necessary. Have many accomplishement stories available if you are not good at thinking on your feet. I provided several but there were many requested. I would say culture is driven, targeted at overperformance.
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IT Engineer at Cisco Systems
Posted Apr 6, 2009
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3.0
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Declined Offer
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Interviewed Feb 2007 in Santa Clara, CA (took 1 week)
The interview was pretty straightforward. I had been an intern there already for several months, but they didn't just accept me in. I had a phone interview which lasted about 45 minutes with the hiring manager who was from the east coast. A few days later I had the actual interview.
There were 6 different 1 on 1 interviews which lasted for about a half hour each. I interviewed with an HR person, a manger, a couple engineers, an architect and then a couple analysts together.
It was pretty easy. The only difficult questions were those posed by the architect and even then they were simple. I was surprised because there were a lot of people interviewing me, but none went very in depth. It's possible it was just because the position was an IT Engineer 1 and I had already been performing in that position for a few months though.
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I had two offers on the table: one from Cisco and one from a startup. I chose the startup.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Skills Test.
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Product Manager, Intern (Cisco Choice Program) at Cisco Systems
Posted Apr 4, 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 Jan 2009 in San Jose, CA (took 2 weeks)
Interview conducted via Video Conference (Cisco Telepresence System). One round.Friendly interviewer, mostly behavioral questions. Slow decision time. Took 2 months to get an offer. Cisco Choice program allows intern to rank his business unit choices where he would like to work and they would try to accommodate that request.
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