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Software Engineer Interview Experience - Los Angeles, California

October 1, 2016
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Process

I applied through the campus careers website and the Cisco jobs page, and had a campus interview two weeks later.

There was only one campus interview, which was an hour long and consisted of behavioral and technical questions. It was a good experience and a really easy interview, but they wanted you to know a little about the company and some of the new projects they were working on.

Overall, I had a good experience, but I never heard back from them and find that to be very unprofessional. The recruiters didn't even give out any contact information, so I never heard from them.

Questions

Behavioral:

  • Previous projects
  • Experience
  • Interests
  • What I knew about the company
  • Courses I've taken so far

Technical:

  • No actual coding, but asked specifically how I would go about coding certain problems.
  • Linked lists
  • Binary trees
  • Hash tables
  • Stacks
  • Recursion (my interviewer was a big fan of recursion and asked detailed questions, some of which I did not know the answer to).

There was no way you could do well if you didn't already know your stuff.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 10 interview experiences for the Cisco Software Engineer role in Los Angeles, California.

Success Rate

20%
Pass Rate

Cisco's interview process for their Software Engineer roles in Los Angeles, California is very selective, failing most engineers who go through it.

Experience Rating

Positive70%
Neutral20%
Negative10%

Candidates reported having very good feelings for Cisco's Software Engineer interview process in Los Angeles, California.

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