Cisco

Great Resources, Clueless Management

Software Engineer

Current Employee

Has worked at Cisco for 6 years

May 30, 2012

San Jose, California

Great Resources, Clueless Management

Software Engineer•Current Employee•Worked at Cisco for 6 years

May 30, 2012

San Jose, California

3.0

Doesn't RecommendNeutral OutlookDoesn't Approve of CEO

Pros

Access to great networking resources

Cons

Clueless upper management.

Needs improvement.

Advice to Management

Get a clue

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Cisco Interview Questions

Collect Coins in a Tree

Hard

Imagine a tree where some nodes have coins. You want to collect all the coins, but you can only traverse the tree. Find the minimum number of edges you need to travel to collect all the coins.

GraphsTrees

Minimum Time to Collect All Apples in a Tree

Medium

Imagine a tree where some nodes have apples. Find the minimum time needed to collect all the apples and return to the root, considering the time to travel each edge.

TreesDepth-First SearchRecursion

Rotate Image

Medium

You are given a square matrix representing an image. Rotate the image by 90 degrees clockwise in-place.

Arrays

Cisco Interview Experiences

Software Engineer

San Jose, California, United States

May 1, 2011

Applied online. Initial phone screening for 2.5 hours. Discussions involved OS concepts, DS, algorithms, resume-based projects, and some behavioral questions. Scheduled second round involving a series of 4 Webex interviews on the same day.