Cisco used to be a great company to work for!
Cisco used to be a great company to work for!
Top leader in networking: switching, routing.
Customer focused.
Employees are empowered to take ownership and risks.
Very loyal customer base.
Overall quality of product is pretty good.
The law of size is catching up (70k+ employees), becoming less agile, and too many projects are failing. It's considered more of a hardware-focused networking company than a software/application provider. Responsibility is diluted at the senior executive level of management.
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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.
ASIC Design Verification Engineer
The first round was essentially a screening interview with the recruiter. We mostly discussed my resume, past experiences, and had a general conversation about the company and the role. The second round was more technical. It involved a deeper dive
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.
ASIC Design Verification Engineer
San Jose, California, United StatesJuly 1, 2025The first round was essentially a screening interview with the recruiter. We mostly discussed my resume, past experiences, and had a general conversation about the company and the role. The second round was more technical. It involved a deeper dive
