I applied through a staffing agency. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Cisco (Kraków) in Dec 2018
Interview
First job agency contact to me and propose me an offer. Then I had a interview with another job agency, where they asked me technical questions. After that I had another interview (technical and HR) in Cisco.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Cisco (San Jose, CA) in Apr 2019
Interview
First, I was contacted by the Director of engineering asking for the time to schedule the interview. And I was scheduled for a Cisco Webex interview with 4 of the engineers in the team 45-60 min each back to back. Every interviewer was nice.
Second, I got the mail from HR saying that they want to continue with me in the process and make an offer and she will contact me for further process.
I waited for weeks and then mailed her regarding the further process, she replied that she will get back to me in a day or two. But I never heard anything from her even after following up with her several times. Then I directly followed up with the Director of engineering of the team as It had been almost a month that I gave the interview. I got a reply saying that they are unable to make an offer at that point of time as there is a budget issue for the team.
I felt very shocked by the response, why do they even say that they want to continue with an offer before knowing their team budget. I lost some of the other opportunities that I had in between this one month of the period.
I never expected that the reputed companies like Cisco would treat their applicants like trash.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1. Programming questions on Link List.
2. Basic Networking, OS, C programming concepts.
It was a 3 round interview process.1.Technical Questions (Core java, spring, Hibernate, Database) related 2. White boarding - Coding round 3. Generic questions regarding your previous experience and How would you deal with real time problems