I applied through college or university. The process took 3 days. I interviewed at Cisco (Greenville, NC) in Oct 2022
Interview
A multistep process, in the first round of interviews,I was asked about a time I had to trouble shoot in real life, then I was asked to trouble shoot a problem that was made to be unsolvable so that the interviewers can see how well you think. And then I was asked to describe how packets would travel in a basic topology
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Name a time you had to trouble shoot something? How would you go about trouble shooting this (given a prompt) How would a packet travel in this topology (shown topology)
I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Cisco in Jun 2026
Interview
Mainly asked about the networking and OSI models and if any project related to the networking as well as how you communicate and how is ur confidence level, the tip is to speak confidently and try to answer all the questions
total 3 technical rounds.
more over on packaet flow and aaa based questions
what happens when you type google.com
RADIUS VS TACACS
Guest auth flow
switching questions
vlan
intervlan routing
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
EAP-TLS packet flow with details explaination step by step
I applied through college or university. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Cisco
Interview
Behavioral Questions were asked such as working in team environment and how would you handle difficult situations. They also wanted to test your knowledge about the work of the company and its products
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Tell me about yourself. Working in team environment, and how would you handle disputes
Technical Consulting Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Cisco with 3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 89% positive. To compare, the company-average is 68% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Technical Consulting Engineer roles take an average of 39 days to get hired, when considering 28 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 Technical Consulting Engineer according to 28 Glassdoor interviews include:
Group panel interview: 19%
Skills test: 16%
Phone interview: 15%
Background check: 13%
One on one interview: 13%
Presentation: 9%
Personality test: 8%
Drug test: 5%
IQ intelligence test: 3%
Other: 1%
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