I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2+ months. I interviewed at Cisco (Milpitas, CA) in Feb 2016
Interview
Interviewed with an online coding test. Interviewed by phone with technical questions. Then interviewed onsite by 3 developers.
It took a long time to hear back about the offer. Over a month in fact. This was out of the control of the recruiter and the company so I can't complain but it certainly wasn't a good experience waiting that long. The actual interview experience was great. Everyone was very friendly and helpful. No arrogance at all compared to other companies / interviews.
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Cisco (Bengaluru) in Nov 2021
Interview
Very neat interview process but poor scheduling. They rescheduled 3 times for one round. Questions were very simple previous working experience and Data structure questions. Two interviewer joined the call only one was active during the call
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Cisco (Bengaluru)
Interview
Started with an Online Test once selected, called for Face to face interview, Basically had 3 rounds of Technical mostly Java, REST, Problem solving ability, and each one with increase in difficulty level
I applied online. The process took 3 days. I interviewed at Cisco
Interview
Online Test on HackerRank for initial screening. Questions were kind of easy and only related to Java language. This role was for developers with a minimum experience of more than 2 years.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
5 MCQs related to different class and object properties of Java.
3 coding questions
a) Check for balance parentheses in an expression
b) Check for lonely prime number in an array
c) Create a HashSet and add employee objects like name and id to it and print the HashSet. Also throw exception for bad inputs and generate a unique hash for all the employee ids before storing it.
Java Developer applicants have rated the interview process at Cisco with 2.5 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 75% positive. To compare, the company-average is 68% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Java Developer roles take an average of 28 days to get hired, when considering 4 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Cisco overall takes an average of 27 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Cisco as a Java Developer according to 4 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 27%
Presentation: 18%
One on one interview: 18%
Skills test: 9%
IQ intelligence test: 9%
Drug test: 9%
Background check: 9%
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