Great opportunities if you are willing to relocate, but limited if you are located in Scotland, which I was.
Working with hard-working and talented people from whom you can learn.
Good management.
Good pay and benefits.
Need to relocate to take advantage of real career opportunities.
Cisco will cull staff every few years, and if you are in a targeted area, there isn't much you can do.
You have talented employees outside of San Jose. Invest in them!
Cisco is a global company with global employees, so it should make more effort to move away from a San Jose-centric culture.
I got the interview through a referral. The manager and HR handled the scheduling really well. First was a phone interview via Cisco Webex. I was given a task to write a program related to parsing strings. After the phone interview, I was scheduled
There were 3 rounds of technical interviews on the same day, followed by managerial and HR on a different day. There was also a director round (behavioral round). Overall, it was good.
Consists of three rounds of in-person (face-to-face) interviews. First round: C and data structure questions and basic networking questions. Second round: OS concepts and IPC mechanisms. Third round: Networking concepts and design questions.
I got the interview through a referral. The manager and HR handled the scheduling really well. First was a phone interview via Cisco Webex. I was given a task to write a program related to parsing strings. After the phone interview, I was scheduled
There were 3 rounds of technical interviews on the same day, followed by managerial and HR on a different day. There was also a director round (behavioral round). Overall, it was good.
Consists of three rounds of in-person (face-to-face) interviews. First round: C and data structure questions and basic networking questions. Second round: OS concepts and IPC mechanisms. Third round: Networking concepts and design questions.