I applied through college or university. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Cisco (San Luis Obispo, CA) in Oct 2014
Interview
Meet their representative at school's career fair. They asked me to apply online. I applied online. A week later, I received an email for an on-campus interview. The interview lasted for about 30 minutes. I was talking to the human resource people, so there is no technical question. Mostly just going through my resume, and behavioral question.
Its a quick interview process. I . got through college placements. They tested me on the basic foundation questions and couple problem solving.
the interview process is quick it consisted of 3 rounds after a written round. 2 technical and one HR round. Written round is bit tough once that is cleared the technical round is based on your area of interest .
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
how will you find the 2nd largest number in 32 numbers?
I applied through college or university. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Cisco (Mysore) in Jul 2019
Interview
1st round aptitude and 1 coding questions,
Then 2 technical round and 1 HR round.
technical round is about database queries,computer networks and coding.
1st round around 280 students attended, and 80 students were selected.
Finally 18 students got placed.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
They asked about SQL queries,OSI Netwrok model,About ping ,Telnet and application layer protocols.Tell me about Cloud.
About the projects I had done and Tell me about yourself..
I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Cisco (Bengaluru) in Jul 2019
Interview
First round consist of online test.There were two section mcq and two coding questions.Whoever could score good in mcq and could pass some test cases got shortlisted for next round.Therefore Mcq are mandatory .
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
explain insertion sort,merge sort etc and some basic os and cn questions.
IT Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Cisco with 2.4 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 84% positive. To compare, the company-average is 68% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for IT Engineer roles take an average of 25 days to get hired, when considering 27 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 IT Engineer according to 27 Glassdoor interviews include:
One on one interview: 26%
Group panel interview: 17%
Phone interview: 15%
Background check: 12%
Skills test: 12%
Personality test: 9%
IQ intelligence test: 5%
Presentation: 2%
Drug test: 2%
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