Software Developer applicants have rated the interview process at Cisco with 3.3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 67% positive. To compare, the company-average is 72.3% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Developer roles take an average of 14 days to get hired, when considering 3 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Cisco overall takes an average of 49 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Cisco as a Software Developer according to 3 Glassdoor interviews include:
Skills test: 43%
Personality test: 14%
One on one interview: 14%
Phone interview: 14%
Presentation: 14%
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Aptitude+technical test followed by 2 interview rounds. Technical round has standard questions on C, few questions from digital electronics, aptitude had a lot of time consuming questions. If you have attended the same company before for another profile, few questions repeat. Concepts tested are the same
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Aptitude questions were heavy on probability, most of them difficult and time consuming
Took a day
written test had aptitude , c programming,data structures , basic electronics and networking.
2 technical interviews. Majority of the questions in both the rounds were based on programming and networking. Basic electronics questions were also asked.
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Cisco (Milpitas, CA) in Jun 2013
Interview
the interview process took about two weeks. There was a phone interview followed by a 1:1 interview. The second round was with four people but the questions were very basic related to programming. Not much to do on whiteboad