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Software Engineer I at Cisco Systems
Posted Apr 6, 2011
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2.0
Easy Interview
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Mar 2011 (took a day)
I got interview through my University Career center. It was first round of interview.
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The interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview and a Skills Test.
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Software Engineer I at Cisco Systems
Posted Feb 21, 2011
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Declined Offer
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Interviewed Oct 2010 (took 4 weeks)
Had to have a screening at a job fair at my university, then they scheduled a one on one interview for a month from then. About a couple weeks after the interview, i was tentatively told that depending on the outcome of my background check I would be employed.
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I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview and a Background Check.
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Software Engineer I at Cisco Systems
Posted Jan 4, 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 Nov 2010 in San Jose, CA (took 2 months)
I started with the company from a Job Fair at my university. The turn around time between meeting with a PR and getting an e-mail took about two weeks. They let me know about on-campus interviews and I signed up for one.
At the interview, I was paired with a young gentlemen who asked mainly technical questions based around data structures and algorithms.
Afterwards, I was contacted two weeks after for an on-site interview. I had the interview in their Texas location. It consisted of 3 45-minute interviews. Compared to other friends who had their interviews at the same time, mine was fairly personality based. I was asked only one technical question, but my other friends were technically grilled. I think it matters for the random group you were placed in.
I had a fairly positive perception of the company afterwards. There were two or three presentations as well as a tour which highlighted the work environment and life. It seems very group-based, and those there seemed to be engaging and good listeners.
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The interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview, a Skills Test and a Background Check.
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Software Engineer I at Cisco Systems
Posted Dec 7, 2010 — 1 of 1 people found this helpful
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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 Nov 2010 in San Jose, CA (took 4+ weeks)
Went to my schools career fair. Had a short interview on the spot. I was offered an on-campus interview the next day. After a week, they asked me to fly up to San Jose for more interviews. On the day of the interviews, we were all (30 applying for the Cisco Choice Program) interviewing in the same room. Each of us had to interview 1 on 1 with a Cisco employee for 45min. After a 5 min break, we rotated to another interviewer. And again. So there were 3 interviews in a row. After their was a tour of the campus. A week later I received a congratulatory email and a week after I received an official offer.
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The interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.
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Software Engineer I at Cisco Systems
Posted Dec 3, 2010
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Declined Offer
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Interviewed Oct 2010 (took 3 weeks)
They asked some personality and C++ questions.
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I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.
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Software Engineer I at Cisco Systems
Posted Jul 1, 2010
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Aug 2008 (took a day)
Initially met with a recruiter in a conference. Then they called me to interview in the headquarters. It was 4 interviews, each about 50 minutes, all technical questions. I think they got back to me about a week later with an offer.
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Negotiation Details
I did not negotiate at all...
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I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.
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Software Engineer I at Cisco Systems
Posted Nov 4, 2009
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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 2008 in San Jose, CA (took 2 days)
I got an interview on campus. Basic questions about myself and the company: "Tell me about yourself", "How do I know if you are the right person for my company?"...No technical
Then 1 month later I got an invitation including hotel and flight ticket to San Jose for 2 days.
It started with a dinner with Cisco employees.
The next days, we are divided into 3-person groups. Each group will be interview individually by 3 other engineers. They basically asked about my group projects. Gave some technical questions about Java like "What is inheritance?". The last guy will ask harder questions in C programming skill "Write a code to reverse the words in a string?" "Optimize it"
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I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, a Skills Test and a Personality Test.
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