Good work-life balance most of the time in a year.
Bonus is good.
Cisco moves fast as a big company.
Engineers have freedom and resources to try new ideas.
Engineers with a higher grade level may perform less than their junior-grade-level peers. Some engineers don't perform to their grade level.
The concept of a minimum time period to spend on a position before the next promotion can happen should be revised for performers.
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.
The recruiter set up a phone screen. This was an hour long, and the interviewer asked me about OS, Data Structures, OOPS, and gave me a problem to solve. Then, there was an onsite round, which consisted of more DS and algorithm problems, varying fro
Had a 30-minute phone interview with one engineer. Discussed my school projects mostly. Then was called for a full-day onsite interview with 5 engineers. Asked questions on: * String manipulation * Perl scripting * Network technologies (TCP/IP, UDP
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.
The recruiter set up a phone screen. This was an hour long, and the interviewer asked me about OS, Data Structures, OOPS, and gave me a problem to solve. Then, there was an onsite round, which consisted of more DS and algorithm problems, varying fro
Had a 30-minute phone interview with one engineer. Discussed my school projects mostly. Then was called for a full-day onsite interview with 5 engineers. Asked questions on: * String manipulation * Perl scripting * Network technologies (TCP/IP, UDP