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).
1 Recruiter screening, 3 Rounds of interviews (incl. one with Hiring Manager)
Very conversational, mostly behavioral questions (1 product sense question)
Recruiter was amazing and the process was quick and accomodating
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Tell me about a time you worked in a team, what did you do?
I applied online. The process took 3 months. I interviewed at Cisco (San Francisco, CA) in Feb 2023
Interview
Tough, three rounds, discussed how networks worked, live coding round, and technical trivia for the third. The interviewers were very nice, talking about the problem and had multiple follow-ups that get tougher and tougher as the interview went along.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What is TCP/IP? How would you design a network for a corporate client that needs to access large amounts of data?
I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Cisco (Bengaluru)
Interview
First Round : OA (online assesment)
It has aptitude questions and CS core subject questions mainly focuses on the Computer Netwroks
It has 2 DSA questions
1. grid based questions recursion using Trie
2. Graph based question..
Both DSA questiona were difficult ..