All depends on your team
All depends on your team
Great teams within Cisco can have a chill manager and a moderate workload that avoids overtime.
Layoff culture is constant. Twice yearly, they do massive layoffs, then rehire over the course of the year. It's stressful during each layoff season.
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Coding interview: 1. Regular expression matching 2. String with a common prefix 3. Reverse a doubly linked list in better than O(n) time. The interviewer was nice and friendly. The whole process was smooth and professional.
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Raleigh, North Carolina, United StatesApril 1, 2025Coding interview: 1. Regular expression matching 2. String with a common prefix 3. Reverse a doubly linked list in better than O(n) time. The interviewer was nice and friendly. The whole process was smooth and professional.
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Raleigh, North Carolina, United StatesAugust 1, 2016It was the first step in a series, and I was waiting for the next. It was a fast process; the whole thing lasted for 40 minutes and went smoothly. I was mostly prepared for a non-technical round. After reading about the process online and on Glassd
