I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Cisco (San Jose, CA) in Mar 2012
Interview
Nice people but hard questions. one phone and one onsite with 4 people interviewed, all technical questions, no behavior questions. It took more than half a day. All are coding skill questions.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Cisco (Milpitas, CA) in Oct 2015
Interview
Terrible experience!!!! After the interview, the hiring manger calls and extends an offer verbally, and then for a week no response from them at all. Tried reaching them via email, phone, absolutely no response. Finally the recruiter is available on his mobile and he says they cannot give a certain Grade , and a certain salary, I still say its ok please give me an offer letter. He says he will get back to me by the EOD and no response. Next week I call the recruiter again and now he says the req is closed and in turn blames me for not responding on time.
Clearly, looks like the hiring manger extended an offer but later they changed their mind and they have no idea how to communicate this to me, so did all sorts of things to make me drop the ball and when I did not they say the req is closed.
Did not expect this from a reputable organization like Cisco. Terrible , terrible hiring process!! I feel interviewees should be give some respect when they take time to come onsite and spend a day.
No point taking names, but I just wish this would be addressable and not be repeated for future candidates.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Data structure/algo questions and some low level questions
I applied through college or university. The process took 1+ week. I interviewed at Cisco (Albany, NY) in Feb 2015
Interview
Routine questions about background, motivations, team works, etc. Nothing out of the ordinary. One of the question was what would I do if I had a million dollar. Technical questions are all simple, Python-specific. The interviewer was nice and courteous.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What is a dictionary in Python. What is list in Python. What is a tuple in Python. Some other simple ones I can't remember.