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Software Engineer Interview Experience - San Jose, California

November 1, 2018
Positive ExperienceGot Offer

Process

I applied through a university career fair and secured an on-campus interview. About a month and a half later, I was told I had "next steps" and was asked to complete an online coding assessment before the final on-site interview.

After this, I attended Cisco Day, which was the final interview, consisting of one technical and one behavioral interview.

Questions

Given a paragraph (string with space-delimited words) and a word (string), return whether the word appears in the paragraph.

How would you implement a cache?

Given a string, find and return the first non-duplicate character (e.g., 'abcdabde' would return 'c').

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 125 interview experiences for the Cisco Software Engineer role in San Jose, California.

Success Rate

54%
Pass Rate

Cisco's interview process for their Software Engineer roles in San Jose, California is on the easier side as most engineers get an offer after going through it.

Experience Rating

Positive65%
Neutral23%
Negative12%

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

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