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Updated May 23, 2012 – Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates.
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Engineering at Cisco Systems
Posted Jan 23, 2012 — 0 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 Jul 2010 (took 2 days)
Interview process was objective and to bring out the capabilities of the indiviual
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Product Manager at Cisco Systems
Posted Jan 11, 2012
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5.0
Very Difficult Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Oct 2010 in Milpitas, CA (took 4+ weeks)
Had an initial phone screen that was very much like a consulting interview (market sizing, etc). 30 days later I was contacted again to interview for a different position. Only one round with 5 interviews including sales, engineering, but mostly product managers. One group interview where I presented a business problem to the PM leadership. The interview questions consisted of grilling on the product domain I would be working in (even though I had little background in it -- good thing i did my research), brainteasers (what's the TAM for dryers in the US), and how to sell questions ("sell me something in the room").
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Negotiation Details
difficult. i had to refuse to get a modest pay increase
Other Details
I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, a Group/Panel Interview, a Presentation, an IQ/Intelligence Test, a Skills Test and a Personality Test.
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Project Manager at Cisco Systems
Posted Jan 10, 2012
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Dec 2011 in San Jose, CA (took 2 days)
Recruiter arranged telephonic interview, Manager asked about pm experience, PM concepts, real life situations.
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I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Benefits Manager at Cisco Systems
Posted Jan 8, 2012
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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 Atlanta, GA (took 2 months)
I was really pleased to have the opportunity to interview with Cisco. The second interview, which was with the hiring manager, didn't occur until several weeks after the initial HR screening interview, but it seemed to go extremely well. The next series of back-to-back interviews were with peers to the hiring manager. Based on the way the interviews progressed, I was very surprised to be notified that I was no longer being considered for the opportunity with them. To some degree, I felt like the feedback from the interviewers was somewhat disingenious.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Group/Panel Interview.
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Engineering at Cisco Systems
Posted Jan 4, 2012
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Jun 2010 in Austin, TX (took 5 days)
Went through a relatively short phone interview, followed up several days later by a series of one on one interviews with 3 different people at the company. Pretty much industry standard stuff. Over the phone it was the usual get to know you and behavioural type questions followed up by technical and riddle type stuff in the one on ones.
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* You have access to a 100-storey building.
* Eggs can be very hard or very fragile means it may break if dropped from the first floor or may not even break if dropped from 100 th floor.Both eggs are identical.
* You need to figure out the highest floor of a 100-storey building an egg can be dropped without breaking.
* Now the question is how many drops you need to make. You are allowed to break 2 eggs in the process
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.
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Senior Software Engineer at Cisco Systems
Posted Jan 4, 2012
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Jun 2011 in San Jose, CA (took a day)
been asked for the background knowledge;
been tested with C++ skills;
been tested with Java skills
been tested with protocols;
did not answer all the question correctly;
there were 5 rounds interviews;
took one day;
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I got the interview through an Employee Referral and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview and a Skills Test.
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Associate Systems Engineer at Cisco Systems
Posted Dec 28, 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 Nov 2011 (took 5 months)
I applied online as a graduate. Got a phone call to go through my CV and if they were happy they would put me forward for telephone interview. Got through and succesfully passed telephone interview approx 45 mins. There is 2 more rounds to get through. Interviewer couldn't be nicer.
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Negotiation Details
Didn't do any negotiating as I am only through to the next round
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a Group/Panel Interview and a Presentation.
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Software Engineer at Cisco Systems
Posted Dec 28, 2011
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2.0
Easy Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Sep 2011 in Austin, TX (took a day)
They take your GPA seriously into considerations.
Then they look for systems related project experience.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.
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Associate Sales Representative at Cisco Systems
Posted Dec 21, 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 Nov 2011 in Research Triangle Park, NC (took 7+ weeks)
Great people and work environment outside of the interview room. Was not sure what to expect during the interview process and spent too much time reading the technical manual. Also during the mock meeting and presentation, be prepared to deal with difficult personalities. The person conducting the information session acting as a client would not give me any information and set up a one in a thousand kind of situation where the client did not want to work with me. Very frustrating and made it near impossible to come up with an idea to present in the next round. Not sure what advice to give because the feedback they gave me revolved around not getting enough information from the mock client--which was definitely not my fault. Other than that, had a great next 2 rounds with really friendly people. I believe the first round hurt me and since they were only taking 10/40 people it made a huge difference, unfortunately.
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The interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview, a Presentation and a Background Check.
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Associate Systems Engineer at Cisco Systems
Posted Dec 20, 2011 — 1 of 2 people found this helpful
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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 3+ weeks)
I initially submitted my resume through a job fair at schoole with the hopes of joining the Associate Systems Engineering(ASE) ranks. An important point to make for the title of systems engineer is that each company has a slightly different definition of the systems engineer. Cisco defines the systems engineer as a technical sales person with a focus on informing a customer about products and services available. The first round interview was a phone interview that consisted of a couple questions about my resume and then the interviewer asked about routers and switches. This question is geared towards your understanding of the TCP/IP architecture and doesn't have to be exact technical understanding of how the system works but do know the basic functionality. The second question was what are the difference between a switches and routers. I kept it high level and used non technical examples to explain the difference. After the technical questions i was able to ask some questions about what the next steps were and how to prepare. He talked a little about the final part of the interview process and got me in contact with one of the newly hired ASE. I was then recommended for the second round interview.
The second round in the interview process is a video presentation on what this phrase means to me "The Network is the Platform." I am not really that good at video presentation and did a fairly basic presentation with a video camera, a script and my smiling face. After submitting the video i got an email a few weeks later saying the spots were filled for the final interviews. I would recommend for the video just doing what comes natural for you.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a Presentation.
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