The intern program and culture are excellent!
The intern program and culture are excellent!
Cisco does a great job of building an environment conducive to growth for interns, and the people are fantastic! My experience as a Cisco Intern was a fun and productive one, and it morphed into an offer to continue working part-time through school!
Cisco is a really, really big, really, really complicated organization, and the number of moving parts is extensive. You can expect it to take a few weeks to begin to understand exactly how the work you do fits into a larger whole.
Cisco is constantly reinventing itself and trying to innovate, which is good. However, one area where innovation is slow is HR/Hiring practices. Bring in someone extremely talented at HR and shake up the existing order. It feels like while everything else is moving extremely fast, HR is still stuck in the '90s.
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After the LeetCode Easy and Medium technical interviews, they followed up with behavioral interviews with two different teams. I eventually received an offer with my second interviewer and team lead. The process took about a month.
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The interview process included a phone screen followed by an on-site interview the next week. Cisco was seeking a candidate with experience in Docker, Jenkins, and Linux build support for .deb and .rpm packages. The initial phone screen lasted appr
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Referred by an employee. Had a Webex interview, which basically went through my resume and asked about my projects. It lasted about 25 minutes. After a week, I was notified that I am still in consideration. After two weeks, I received the offer.
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Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, United StatesApril 4, 2025After the LeetCode Easy and Medium technical interviews, they followed up with behavioral interviews with two different teams. I eventually received an offer with my second interviewer and team lead. The process took about a month.
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Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, United StatesJanuary 1, 2018The interview process included a phone screen followed by an on-site interview the next week. Cisco was seeking a candidate with experience in Docker, Jenkins, and Linux build support for .deb and .rpm packages. The initial phone screen lasted appr
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Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, United StatesMarch 1, 2016Referred by an employee. Had a Webex interview, which basically went through my resume and asked about my projects. It lasted about 25 minutes. After a week, I was notified that I am still in consideration. After two weeks, I received the offer.
