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Software Engineer IV at Cisco Systems
Posted Nov 1, 2010
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3.0
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Oct 2010 in San Jose, CA (took 2 days)
Hiring manager called and did Phone interview and went for 5 rounds of 1-1 interview.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.
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Software Engineer IV at Cisco Systems
Posted Sep 17, 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 Mar 2010 in Milpitas, CA (took 6 weeks)
After initial screening from HR, it took almost 1 week to get the phone interview from Hiring Manager. And after 5 days they asked for the in-person interview. Mine interview schedule was as below,
1. HR Screening (20 mins)
2. Hiring Manager Phone Interview Technical (1 hr)
3. First Round in person interview Technical, met with 3 Senior Engineers, 1 Technical Lead, 1 hirining manager (4:30 Hrs)
4. Second Round in person Interview technical, met with 4 Senior Engineers, 1 hiring manager, 1 other manager, 1 hiring manager's manager (6 hrs) [though this was planned to be a 5 hrs interview, my hiring manager kept throwing problems at me as he was the last interviewer, it took 1 hour to solve and discuss the last problem what he gave to me. He himself took 1:30 hrs of interview :) meanwhile he kept asking if I am ok for another 15 minutes :) ]
5. Origin Country Background check since my passport was not US passport (asked for documents)
6. Background check in US (asked for documents)
7. Employment Verification and employment background check (hiring manager contacted 4-5 references by phone)
8. Negotiation (took 3-4 days in negotiation itself)
9. Acceptance of offer
10. H-1B Visa transfer
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Negotiation Details
You can always negotiate once the hiring manager has an offer for you. They always try to come up with the smallest possible number first for you but they always go higher so try your best for negotiation.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, a Presentation, an IQ/Intelligence Test, a Skills Test and a Background Check.
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Software Engineer IV at Cisco Systems
Posted Feb 25, 2010
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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 Mar 2008 in Richardson, TX (took a day)
On the Phone interview, I was aksed questions mostly from my resume and background. I was asked quesions on
1. Descrtibe RADIUS protocol in brief
2. Describe the differences between TCP and UDP
3. Describe the end-to-end callflow for one system you worked
4. Threads vs Processes
5. Task scheduling in vxWorks
and some more questions based on my resume
In the main interview, I had 1:1 with four people spread over the day
1. Describe Pre-emption
2. priorirt Inversion and how to overcome it
3. Interrupts and ISRs
4. How do timers work in vxWorks
5. Semaphores
5. Linked list vs array
7. Trees, BSTs and when to use
And other questions were mostly to explain on white board what all I did in my last 10 years..and design details of that and why it was designed that way etc
Then some questions on the debugging tools I used like GDB
Negotiation Details
It was farily strainght forward. I asked a figure, they quoted something. After 2 rounds to going back and forth, they agreed to what I was asking.
Other Details
I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.
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Software Engineer IV at Cisco Systems
Posted Sep 12, 2009 — 0 of 2 people found this helpful
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2.0
Easy Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Apr 2008 in San Jose, CA (took a day)
There was no interview, I was already working as consultant and being converted to regular employee.
I got a offer letter after background check was done. Salary was accepted without negotiation.
I had to submit my immigration papers afterwards as I was still on H1b with a EAD and almost in last stages of getting green card. I reckon getting green card was still on top of my mind which kind of prevented me from negotatiating on the salary.
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Negotiation Details
Salary negotiation is a must otherwise one could end up getting paid much lower, which could result in being several years behind other folks with similar skills or even poorer skills
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