I applied through college or university. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Cisco (Raleigh, NC) in Feb 2017
Interview
Met a Cisco rep at a campus recruitment event. The guy hyped me up for the network engineer position even though I didn't have great experience with networks specifically. He told me they were looking for transferable skills.
I interviewed a week later, and the interviewer was a young software developer who was arrogant and acted like he did not want to be there. The questions were very technical, which surprised me after my conversation with the rep. He asked a combination of puzzle questions and very specific networking questions.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
If you could cut a donut 3 times, what cuts would give you the most pieces?
I applied through college or university. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Cisco (San Jose, CA) in Oct 2017
Interview
I was contacted through a conference to interview for this position. The first was a phone screen where the engineer asked me networking basic questions and how to troubleshoot. After that, I was flown out to San Jose, CA for Cisco Day. The interview consisted of 3 rounds (technical, behavior, and presentation). My behavior and presentation interviewers were really nice. Two people interviewed me for the technical round, and one of them was extremely rude and condescending. The technical interview consisted of troubleshooting scenarios. It also involved subnet calculations. I was told by one of the interviewers that if you are interested in coding and software engineering, then this is not a good position to be in because a network engineer mostly deals with customers and is on the phone all day.
I applied through college or university. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Cisco (Raleigh, NC) in Sep 2017
Interview
At first, i had a phone screening and then I had an interview on webex and then there an on-site interview which is called CISCO day. This process really took only 3 weeks of a span. Had to do a presentation in the choosen project.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
How would you explain troubleshooting to your GrandMother