Glassdoor users rated their interview experience at Cisco as 66.7% positive with a difficulty rating score of 2.67 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty). Candidates interviewing for Account Manager and Senior System Engineer rated their interviews as the hardest, whereas interviews for Legal Intern and Marketing roles were rated as the easiest.
The hiring process at Cisco takes an average of 44 days when considering 6 user submitted interviews across all job titles. Candidates applying for Account Manager had the quickest hiring process (on average 28 days), whereas Senior System Engineer roles had the slowest hiring process (on average 60 days).
I interviewed with Cisco at a conference. There was no actual coding questions involved. They asked about data structures and networking terminologies.
I applied online. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Cisco (Bengaluru) in Jul 2011
Interview
Apti/Technical Round
Technical interview - 2 rounds
HR interview (could be telephonic)
Be prepared with Basic C questions. Dont try to over expressive. Interviewers will help you to get the solution. Just be patient.
Written test pattern changes with time. Just Google for the latest pattern. As far as mine was concerned it was a combination of Electronics(Digital)+C lang+Basic Apti ones.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Question on Dummy pointers and also volatile variables.
The interviewers were very friendly and technical at the same time. It was on a webex call so a remote interview. There were 3 technical and one managerial round. The difficulty level of the interviews kept on increasing with the round.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Most of the questions did check the knowledge on networking. They check your basics as well as advanced networking knowledge and the toughness of the questions increase as you answer more questions.