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 100% positive. To compare, the company-average is 65.4% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Consulting Engineer roles take an average of 28 days to get hired, when considering 1 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Cisco overall takes an average of 22 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Cisco as a Consulting Engineer according to 1 Glassdoor interviews include:
The interview process included technical rounds which included spanning tree (scenario based questions)and routing protocol like BGP (BGP attributes, path selection)and OSPF(Types of LSAs) related questions followed by managerial round.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Spanning tree related scenario based questions. Routing protocols - BGP and OSPF related questions.
I applied through college or university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Cisco (Bengaluru) in Aug 2022
Interview
There were three rounds. First round I was asked from my resume about my projects, experience, skills that i had. In the next round I was asked solely on my work in the previous companies and technical skills and software I worked on there. Last round was Manager round which lasted for 10 minutes and then I got a call that I was selected.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Explain the protocol stack and which devices are used in which layers. Explain with real world examples.
I applied through college or university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Cisco (Neu-Delhi) in Aug 2023
Interview
1st round : after clearing the OA , the interviewer made me comfortable and asked to introduce myself. Then asked questions related to my projects , networking , dbms , sql queries . 2nd round - introduction, discussed projects during my internship, talked about ML , Java C++ 3rd round - projects, real life applications of whatever I've learnt and written on my resume + hr questions HR - basic HR questions