mostly 5-6 technical rounds.
HR have no value in cisco.
Managers get their performance rating if they hire people with less salary. salary depend upon managers.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 3 months. I interviewed at Cisco (San Jose, CA) in Mar 2009
Interview
The overall interview duration was about 3 months . I first got a call for a phone screen , after this i heard back after 1 month for a second phone screen . then after 1 more month I was called for on site interview , twice .
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Most of the questions were on java programming language , some on algorithms like write a function to print out fibonacci series