SWE Intern applicants have rated the interview process at Cisco with 2.8 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 55% positive. To compare, the company-average is 68% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for SWE Intern roles take an average of 12 days to get hired, when considering 20 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 SWE Intern according to 20 Glassdoor interviews include:
Skills test: 36%
Phone interview: 27%
Background check: 9%
One on one interview: 9%
IQ intelligence test: 5%
Other: 5%
Drug test: 5%
Personality test: 5%
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Took the AMCAT coding online assessment. The coding questions were LC easy/medium but the platform itself was terrible. The interfacing was really bad; even writing print statements to debug my code was not allowed. Since they asked you to print your solution, any additional debugging output you printed would cause the problem to show as wrong & the console would not show up. Terrible experience.
round 1: online oa, was easy/medium leetcode two questions
round 2 final: 1 behavioral 1 technical, leetcode style but also trivia
round 3: recruiter talk
offer after around three weeks after applying
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Given a list of connections between nodes, find the redundant edge.
Smooth interview process , the whole pool of students were anonymous that is given an ID to contact no name , no college , making it a you deserve you get kind of job
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Explain me about the project in your resume and what difficulties you faced
Online Assessment followed by a Phone Screen. The entire process was well organized and the interviewers and recruiters want you to succeed. Timeline took about 3 weeks from OA invite to Phone Screen Invite.