I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Cisco in Sep 2014
Interview
A campus interview. First interview yourself, Second talk about your past project. Then all about technical questions about operating system, memory management, and a coding problem regarding linked list. Plus, there is a question about mutex. Another question is how does two processes communicate with each other. How to solve multiple thread work.
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Other Software Engineer II Interview Reviews for Cisco
Questions on DSA and basic Operating Systems and networking questions. Also, there was a behavioral round that covered all from my resume and gave to situations to respond accordingly. I got the interview call through GHC and it had only 2 interviews
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Questions on DSA and basic Operating Systems and networking questions.
I successfully completed the online assessment, demonstrating proficiency in all questions and test cases. However, there has been no communication or update on the interview process from the company since.
Software Engineer II applicants have rated the interview process at Cisco with 2.9 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 70% positive. To compare, the company-average is 68% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Engineer II roles take an average of 18 days to get hired, when considering 71 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 Software Engineer II according to 71 Glassdoor interviews include:
One on one interview: 31%
Background check: 20%
Skills test: 18%
Phone interview: 16%
Group panel interview: 7%
Personality test: 4%
IQ intelligence test: 3%
Presentation: 1%
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