Student Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Cisco with 4 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 50% positive. To compare, the company-average is 68% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Student Software Engineer roles take an average of 21 days to get hired, when considering 4 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Cisco overall takes an average of 27 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Cisco as a Student Software Engineer according to 4 Glassdoor interviews include:
Presentation: 33%
One on one interview: 22%
Background check: 11%
Drug test: 11%
Skills test: 11%
Group panel interview: 11%
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they called me back few months after applying on their website. I had 2 interviews overall, with two team members each time. the process is not too long, and they call back relatively fast.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
copying the content of one array to another one, while they might be overlapping
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Cisco in Feb 2023
Interview
Interview with two people from one of the teams. Two technical question, easy and hard, you have two hours. String s, and array of chars, find the minimum index of char in string s that appears in the array and with O(1) place.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Next question is the same but instead of array of chars is array of strings and finding the minimum index of substring that appears in the array
I applied online. I interviewed at Cisco (Netanya) in Feb 2021
Interview
Coding questions and a personal interview. It takes about an hour and a half. Questions about data structures like LinkedList, run time complexity. For example, to find the middle of a LinkedList.