Cisco

Software Engineer Interview Experience - San Francisco, California

March 1, 2023

Neutral ExperienceNo Offer

Process

The interview process had a few different phases:

A code test
A code review
A panel

I only made it through the code review before deciding to take a different position.

Questions

They asked me to write a small program in the language of my preference.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 6 interview experiences for the Cisco Software Engineer role in San Francisco, California.

Success Rate

17%

Pass Rate

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

Experience Rating

Positive50%

Neutral33%

Negative17%

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

Cisco Interview Questions

Collect Coins in a Tree

Hard

Imagine a tree where some nodes have coins. You want to collect all the coins, but you can only traverse the tree. Find the minimum number of edges you need to travel to collect all the coins.

GraphsTrees

Minimum Time to Collect All Apples in a Tree

Medium

Imagine a tree where some nodes have apples. Find the minimum time needed to collect all the apples and return to the root, considering the time to travel each edge.

TreesGraphsRecursion

Rotate Image

Medium

You are given a square matrix representing an image. Rotate the image by 90 degrees clockwise in-place.

Arrays