Good company to work with
Good company to work with
Cisco offers reasonable pay, ranked as a top 25 paid company by CNN.
Good name recognition.
Four weeks' vacation.
No major layoffs or RIFs yet.
Long hours: 9 am - 7 pm. This might be common in the Bay Area, but it's two hours more compared with the East Coast. The company headquarters is in San Jose, a very expensive area.
Diversify the product portfolio into multiple fronts.
Keep the initiative in consumer products.
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Senior Hardware Engineer
Excellent recruiter helped guide the process from start to finish. There were five interviewers. They were all technical based and covered a fair amount of ground regarding theory, hardware design, system bringup, debug, and validation.
Quality Assurance
It was fairly good and well organized. The team was very friendly and interactive. The interview process was smooth and finished the process in a week.
ML/AI Engineer
It was a one-round interview. It was predominantly on data science and large language models. They gave me a repo of an agent framework and asked me to find the code where reward is calculated.
Senior Hardware Engineer
United StatesAugust 1, 2023Excellent recruiter helped guide the process from start to finish. There were five interviewers. They were all technical based and covered a fair amount of ground regarding theory, hardware design, system bringup, debug, and validation.
Quality Assurance
San Jose, California, United StatesNovember 14, 2025It was fairly good and well organized. The team was very friendly and interactive. The interview process was smooth and finished the process in a week.
ML/AI Engineer
San Jose, California, United StatesOctober 24, 2025It was a one-round interview. It was predominantly on data science and large language models. They gave me a repo of an agent framework and asked me to find the code where reward is calculated.
