Glassdoor users rated their interview experience at Cisco as 80% positive with a difficulty rating score of 3 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 Account Manager and Marketing roles were rated as the easiest.
The hiring process at Cisco takes an average of 44 days when considering 5 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 applied through college or university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Cisco (Boxborough, MA) in Nov 2008
Interview
On-campus interview was entirely behavioral, with hardly any technical questions. It was almost too easy to be true.
The on-site interviews, there were three in total, were hardly different in that they were more interested in selling the company and the location to me instead of asking me any technical questions. There were a couple of brain teasers, but nothing beyond that.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
If you have a square room with no roof, and you had four flagpoles you had to plant on the walls so that each flagpole touched two walls, how would you do it?