Challenging, but their TAC is great
Challenging, but their TAC is great
Cisco pretty much owns soup to nuts when it comes to networking, voice, security, data center, etc.
Lots of opportunities if you have the experience.
Cisco used to hire great people and let them move around to share experience. Now, Cisco just wants to buy companies and people that have what they need. The companies they buy stay siloed, which keeps any growth from happening.
Everything now seems to be based on the stock dividend and not on finding ways to make the stock price change. Cisco's culture used to be about the company and its wonderful employees. Coming to Cisco was like winning the lottery; now it has just become another corporate job. People just want to put Cisco on their resume so they can find something better.
Crappy, inconsistent support is what influenced many people to buy Cisco years ago. In the beginning, you hoped Cisco was in the network, as they did not point fingers, were easy to work with, and Cisco knew this very well. The new goal to outsource everything and still try to appear to be the premier choice is only leading to mediocrity. People are still looking for the personal touch of smaller companies that are focused on their products and value their engineering talent. It would appear that Cisco's response to this is to hunt these companies down, then buy and destroy their culture.
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I applied through the university career job board and was invited to interview after 11 days. The interview process included a 45-minute technical phone interview, followed by a decision on whether to proceed to another round of technical interviews
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A difficult written test (too many subjects with basics and few advanced questions), followed by a two-member panel interview, and finally a very easy HR interview.
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I first had an on-campus interview with a former graduate from my school who currently works for Cisco Systems. A few weeks later, I received an email stating that I was accepted to a second-round interview.
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United StatesJanuary 1, 2017I applied through the university career job board and was invited to interview after 11 days. The interview process included a 45-minute technical phone interview, followed by a decision on whether to proceed to another round of technical interviews
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Hyderābād, Telangana, IndiaDecember 1, 2011A difficult written test (too many subjects with basics and few advanced questions), followed by a two-member panel interview, and finally a very easy HR interview.
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San Jose, California, United StatesNovember 1, 2010I first had an on-campus interview with a former graduate from my school who currently works for Cisco Systems. A few weeks later, I received an email stating that I was accepted to a second-round interview.
