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Updated Mar 24, 2012 – Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates.
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Software Engineer II at Cisco Systems
Posted Mar 24, 2012
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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 Feb 2012 in Bangalore (India) (took 2 days)
Initial communication was from the HR.
First there was telephonic interview for 2 hours, basicallyy covering C, Data Structure, Algo, puzzles. It was more to see if to call the cadidate for interview or not.
Once it was cleared i was called to Cisco campus for personal interview. There were totally 4 round of interview in campus, each of ~ 45 min. Mainly same thing C, Data structure, Algo, Networking concepts.
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Negotiation Details
They offered me that was good enough. I just accepted it.
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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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Software Engineer II at Cisco Systems
Posted Jan 23, 2012 — 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 Dec 2011 in Bangalore (India) (took a day)
Round 1: written
Round 2: Java API
Round 3: Data structures & Algorithms
Round 4: OOPS
Round 5: Data structures & Algorithms
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I got the interview through an Employee Referral and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview, an IQ/Intelligence Test and a Background Check.
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Software Engineer II at Cisco Systems
Posted May 19, 2011
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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 Jun 2009 in Bangalore (India) (took 2+ weeks)
Hiring process has several rounds confirming the details on CV
Professinal skills
Attitude skills
technical Skills
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Negotiation Details
It was not so easy to convince them for the offer i wanted.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, an IQ/Intelligence Test and a Skills Test.
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Software Engineer II at Cisco Systems
Posted Apr 6, 2011 — 1 of 1 people found this helpful
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1.0
Very Easy Interview
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Jan 2011 in San Jose, CA (took 3 months)
I did an on campus interview which went pretty well. I was invited for onsite, and that's where all the trouble started: the Cisco Travel got me a flight that would arrive after the interview! I had to call them and eventually this was fixed. Then the recruiter messed up and for some weired reason she had disqualified me and canceled my flight, and did not notify me! I go to the airport, 2 in the morning, I don't have a ticket! Anyway, the story goes on and on, and despite a dozen of emails and phone calls, they still haven't interviewed me! A very unorganized company.
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I got the interview through a College or University.
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Software Engineer II at Cisco Systems
Posted Oct 21, 2010
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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 Oct 2010 (took a day)
I interned with Cisco for 2 summers and then moved to another company to broaden my experience. The interview below was for a full-time position. There was supposedly only one round, after which you either got an offer or you didn't.
1) I spoke with a recruiter at a campus recruiting event. On looking at my resume, he was immediately sour (and even rude) at the fact I chose not to do a 3rd consecutive internship with Cisco. Nonetheless, he invited me to a 1:1 interview the next day.
2) The interview was with the same recruiter I spoke to the day before. All questions were behavioral ("tell me about a time when..."), except for one where he told me to give him a sample SQL statement. He kept mentioning that his boss told him to come back with an "unlimited number of candidates to give offers to".
3) A few days later, I got an email saying "thank you for applying, but Cisco is not interested".
Overall a very negative experience, but mostly a function of the arrogant and unprofessional recruiter I happened to get paired with. Probably could have gone quite differently depending on the interviewer.
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The interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.
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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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