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Software Engineer Interview Experience - San Jose, California

October 1, 2011
Negative ExperienceNo Offer

Process

There are no self-introduction part or CV questions. It went straight forward to a program analysis question, asking me to figure out all the possible errors in that program. Some are obvious syntax errors, but there are some errors that are not obvious and require a sound programming foundation. There might be some other questions after this, but when I failed to solve this question, the interviewer showed no further interest and stopped the interview. The 1-on-1 interview is stressful, and the interviewer hopes to find someone who is really experienced with programming, regardless of what programming language he/she is using.

Questions

Find all errors in a program.

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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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