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Updated Apr 30, 2012 – Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates.
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Systems Engineer at Cisco Systems
Posted Apr 30, 2012
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5.0
Very Difficult Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Jan 2010 in Beijing, Beijing (China) (took 3 months)
skill test including basic technology in network, such as vlan, ip, routing protocol, tcp, udp and others. Also have a English testing including logical test and so on. 1:1 interview, manager ask some question about career development and some business cases. Group interview let us 6 person as a group, make a solution about the next generation home networking.
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I got the interview through an Employee Referral and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, a Group/Panel Interview, a Presentation, an IQ/Intelligence Test and a Skills Test.
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Systems Engineer at Cisco Systems
Posted Jan 27, 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 Nov 2011 in Los Angeles, CA (took 2 days)
Got interview from UCLA career fair for a systems engineer position. Interview was pretty standard. Broken up into Personal questions regarding background and experience, behavioral questions, a technical question, and a mock sales interview.
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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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Systems Engineer at Cisco Systems
Posted Nov 16, 2011 — 1 of 1 people found this helpful
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Negative Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Jan 2011 in Singapore (Singapore) (took 3 months)
* First is typical skills test kinda interview where I was tested for technical competency
* Second is little bit general and more about business, customer (Cisco's customers) requirements, business dealings, converting business requirements in to technical requirements etc
* Third is with Technical Director & other Directors. Focus is on personality, business acumen, cultural things etc
* Final is HR & CXO on compensation, long term goals etc.
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I'd rate extremely negative. HR sucks big time as the response often took weeks if not months. Most of times the answers are vague and not direct (e.g. If I requested to find about bonus plans etc, and the reply was "bonus is good if you perform" instead of some numbers..
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, a Group/Panel Interview, a Skills Test and a Background Check.
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Systems Engineer at Cisco Systems
Posted Nov 1, 2011
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5.0
Very 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 Raleigh, NC (took a day)
The interview takes place on Webex. Cisco's webcam/teleconferencing service. You interview you with a current ASE. The interview is very difficult if you are not from an engineering background, which was my case. They ask questions about some general networking concepts like how a router works, what cloud computing is and other concepts. They also want you to know a lot about the difference services that Cisco provides. Really study up on Cisco. Be honest and if you don't know the answer, don't fake it.
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I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.
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Systems Engineer at Cisco Systems
Posted Sep 30, 2011
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Received and Declined Offer
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Interviewed Oct 2010 in Santa Clara, CA (took 4+ weeks)
There was an initial phone interview with an engineer that asked a few questions about my resume and technical skills. We chatted about the position and if I was interested, I was, he explained the interview process and gave me some materials I should read up on.
There was another phone screen with an engineer that was about 15 minutes long. I passed and got an in person interview
I met with 4 employees total including the manager. I was asked to solve a simple programming problem on the white board while the interviewer grabbed some coffee. After that I was quizzed on my technical abilities including Linux commands, architecture, networking, osi model, etc..
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I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, a Skills Test and a Background Check.
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Systems Engineer at Cisco Systems
Posted Nov 21, 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 May 2010 in Mexico City, The Federal District (Mexico) (took a day)
Being part of a Cisco Internal Program, the Manager in charge of the program send my Resume to the hiring Manager, i was called and asked to go to a job interiew. There i was asked about my experience, my knowledge about different technologies and describing a real hard situatiation i had to face in previuos jobs and how i solved it, or even scholar projects, why i decided to work on my Final Project about certain technology and why not another one.
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Patience and a lot of patience because even the interview process took only one day, the final veredict took weeks.
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I got the interview through an Employee Referral and the interview consisted of a Group/Panel Interview.
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