I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Cisco (Milpitas, CA) in Oct 2010
Interview
Had an initial phone screen that was very much like a consulting interview (market sizing, etc). 30 days later I was contacted again to interview for a different position. Only one round with 5 interviews including sales, engineering, but mostly product managers. One group interview where I presented a business problem to the PM leadership. The interview questions consisted of grilling on the product domain I would be working in (even though I had little background in it -- good thing i did my research), brainteasers (what's the TAM for dryers in the US), and how to sell questions ("sell me something in the room").
The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Cisco (San Jose, CA) in May 2011
Interview
Very professional interview. The questions asked were straightforward and a decision was made very quickly. Since Cisco needed this position pretty badly, they introduced me to the platform and that was that.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
What is your biggest strength and biggest weakness?
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Cisco in May 2011
Interview
Put in a lot of time on the phone with no answer to the interview or follow up. They just went dark. Thought after all my personal/work time with interview on phone they would at least send me a dear John e-mail or something. They put you through a gruling interview with a million questions that you repeat over and over with at least 5 different people just to never hear from them again. Then I found out that there were a lot of layoffs. Don't know what happened. *Strange*