The hiring process at Cisco takes an average of 46 days when considering 2 user submitted interviews across all job titles. Candidates applying for CSM had the quickest hiring process (on average 1 day), whereas Intern Field Sales roles had the slowest hiring process (on average 90 days).
I had one telephonic screening. The interviewer asked very basic data structure questions like one to insert at start of linked list, difference between calloc-malloc and aout virtual functions.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
what data structures compiler maintain to achieve dynamic polymorphism in virtual functions
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Cisco (San Jose, CA) in Apr 2013
Interview
I passed my resume through a contact in Cisco and got on-site interview.
6 people interviewed me technically.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Interview was not very difficult and i felt I did good but they did not accept me and requested more experience.
They asked me to implement pre-order tree walk, how to figured out if a binary tree is balanced, some problem about semaphores and multi-threading.
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Cisco (Gothenburg) in May 2013
Interview
The interview consisted of 2 steps - phone interview and a telepresence video conference (using their own product). The first interview was just simple screening. The HR person called me and asked some questions according to my CV and said that she had to send the information to the HR manager and he will decide about the next step. The interview was not longer than 30 minutes. The same day I got a call from the person in charge of interview scheduling, and the next interview had to be in 3 days after the first one.
On the second interview, I came to the cisco sales office and I had a 2,5 hours interview with 3 different people: HR Manager and 2 developers. Mostly, the questions were easy, and there was only 1 coding question. Anyway, it was my first real job interview and it was a good experience. The people were friendly as well.