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Software Engineer Interview Experience

March 24, 2019
Negative ExperienceGot Offer

Process

Contacted by a recruiter for a phone screen.

Made it to the onsite, but the recruiter messed up and thought I was local.

Last minute, she scheduled me for a video conference that was to act as my onsite.

Did well on my “onsite”—three one-hour interviews with three different people.

Recruiter came back with good news and asked for my salary expectation.

I gave a reasonable market rate for a software engineer of my level in the Bay Area.

Was told that, "That is too high; base will probably be less than $100k. I will talk to the team and get back to you."

Did not get back to me.

Emailed her twice before getting a short response about not moving forward due to my high salary requests (even though it's market rate).

Look elsewhere if you want to be paid what you are worth.

Questions

Algorithm questions... pretty easy.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 436 interview experiences for the Cisco Software Engineer role in United States.

Success Rate

42%
Pass Rate

Cisco's interview process for their Software Engineer roles in the United States is fairly selective, failing a large portion of engineers who go through it.

Experience Rating

Positive58%
Neutral30%
Negative12%

Candidates reported having very good feelings for Cisco's Software Engineer interview process in United States.

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