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).
First, a two minute video on who you are and why you want to work in sales.
Second, a thirty minute WebEx phone or video live interview. These are your standard interview questions.
Third, an all expense paid trip to the Cisco Research Triangle Park Headquarters. There you will take a test, have an interview, do a sales role play, and give a presentation.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
There were no unaccepted questions, but the goal of the interviewers is to mess you up. They want to distract you while you're talking. They want to make you nervous. The reason for this is to see how you handle pressure and tough situations. There were a lot of difficult personalities. The competition is intense - master's degrees, current employees, cisco certificate holders, relatives that are employed, etc.
I applied through college or university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Cisco (San Luis Obispo, CA) in Oct 2012
Interview
I had an on-campus interview after talking to one of the engineer representatives at the job fair. Most of the questions were technical and involved asking me to explain portions of my resume, draw out certain circuits from memory, etc. Overall, make sure you know your resume very well.
They are very prompt with a follow up email and contacted me less than a week later saying they were interested.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Having to draw certain power circuits from memory.