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Updated Feb 8, 2012 – Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates.
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Software Engineer at Cisco Systems
Posted Feb 8, 2012
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1.0
Very Easy Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Dec 2011 (took a day)
Talked a little about myself and current projects.
He then asked me to code up factorial. I did it recursively, he then asked me to do it iteratively.
I coded it up perfect, and he said that was all the coding i needed to do.
Not sure why they didnt ask me harder questions, especially since i did it perfectly and didnt get an offer. I was one of the first interviews of the day, so i think he may have under estimated the level or interviews he was giving or something.
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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 at Cisco Systems
Posted Feb 2, 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 Jan 2012 in Sunnyvale, CA (took a day)
Very friendly, opportunity to share experience and ask questions, non-technical as first interview is fine.
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I got the interview through an Employee Referral and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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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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Software Engineer at Cisco Systems
Posted Dec 15, 2011
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Dec 2011 in San Jose, CA (took 1 week)
The first round consisted of a technical screen which didnt have any programming. There were a few behavioural questions, one reasoning based question(given a long sentence and was asked what was wrong with that sentence) and some technical questions about virtualization,cloud computing,threads etc.
Then i was selected for a continous 5hr webex session with 5 interviewers.The first interviewers didnot turn up for 1hr 20 min.Second and Third went well.Fourth wasnt available too.So they sadi they would reschedule the other interviews. But they had sent a reject in just like an hour and a half.
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Software Engineer at Cisco Systems
Posted Nov 18, 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 2011 in Raleigh, NC (took 2 weeks)
I had a phone interview with 3 members of the team. The interview was pretty standard. Some technical questions. Then after a week I got a call for 2nd round, which was telepresence. I was interviewed by 3 groups each for 45 mins. The interview consisted of technical & personality questions. Technical questions: Java, DS basics, SDLC etc. Was not difficult if basics are clear.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a Group/Panel Interview.
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Software Engineer at Cisco Systems
Posted Nov 18, 2011
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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 Feb 2009 (took a day)
was very exciting to interview with them for this position. Hr was very helpful and really enjoyed the experience.
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Software Engineering at Cisco Systems
Posted Oct 27, 2011
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2.0
Easy Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Oct 2011 (took a day)
The interview was mainly behavioral in nature. We spoke about what was on my resume and I had explain some of my past projects and was then thrown a couple of cases to analyze and comment about.
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The interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.
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Software Engineer at Cisco Systems
Posted Oct 11, 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 Jan 2010 in San Jose, CA (took 1 week)
I submitted my resume through Cisco.com for a Software Engineering internship position. It took about a month for them to contact me back. The recruiter called me for a phone interview, the questions were pretty easy. It's more of a review of my resume and background. I was called into an onsite interview about a week later with the hiring manager. The questions were pretty easy, I guess it was because I was applying for an internship position. He asked me basic PHP questions, how does web application works, some networking fundamentals and some design questions. Then, I was interviewed individually by the entire team and extended team. It was a pretty long 5 hours interview. The interviewer were really nice and took a lot of notes during the interviews. You should really study and prepare for the interviews in both technical and soft skills questions. They offered me the internship about two weeks later.
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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 Group/Panel Interview and a Skills Test.
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Software Engineer at Cisco Systems
Posted Oct 2, 2011
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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 Oct 2011 in San Jose, CA (took a day)
There are no self-introduction part or CV questions. It went straight forward to a program analysis question, asking me to figure out all the possible errors in that program. Some are obvious syntax error. But there are some errors that are not obvious and require a sound programming foundation. There might be some other questions after this but when I failed to solve this question. The interviewer showed no further interest and stopped the interview. The 1 on 1 interview is stressful and the interviewer hope to find someone who are really experienced with programming, regardless of what programming language he / she is using.
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Software Engineer at Cisco Systems
Posted Sep 27, 2011
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Sep 2011 (took a day)
The recruiter was really nice and he just asked a puzzle. Given 8 balls, 7 of them is 10g and the 8th one is .9g, you can use a balance scale, how can you find the lighter ball if you can use the balance scale only two times. I think the puzzle is very common. But I have not solved it during the interview. Sorry about that.
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