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.
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.
It consisted of two 45-minute interviews on simple data structures and algorithms. Half of the time, they asked me about my resume, and the other half was devoted to technical interviews.
The process took about 30 minutes to 1 hour. This was a video call with the team to answer technical questions and non-technical aspects about the job. You should come prepared to answer in-depth questions regarding terminology, concepts, as well a
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.
It consisted of two 45-minute interviews on simple data structures and algorithms. Half of the time, they asked me about my resume, and the other half was devoted to technical interviews.
The process took about 30 minutes to 1 hour. This was a video call with the team to answer technical questions and non-technical aspects about the job. You should come prepared to answer in-depth questions regarding terminology, concepts, as well a