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Senior Software Engineer Interview Experience - San Jose, California

December 1, 2012
Neutral ExperienceNo Offer

Process

Technical Phone Screen and then an in-person interview with the Manager, Technical Lead, and a Team Member.

The Phone Screen lasted 45 minutes and included many technical questions on the skills listed in the resume.

In the in-person interview:

  • First, the manager met and described the job and the project.
  • Then, a technical team member asked questions related to sorting algorithms and data structures.
  • After that, the Lead joined and asked a few technical and some behavioral questions.

Questions

Make a sorted list from two sorted lists, asked to write the code on board.

Thread-safe singleton pattern - asked to write the code.

Code to add an element in a doubly linked list.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 18 interview experiences for the Cisco Senior Software Engineer role in San Jose, California.

Success Rate

33%
Pass Rate

Cisco's interview process for their Senior Software Engineer roles in San Jose, California is fairly selective, failing a large portion of engineers who go through it.

Experience Rating

Positive50%
Neutral28%
Negative22%

Candidates reported having very good feelings for Cisco's Senior Software Engineer interview process in San Jose, California.

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