Fun Culture, Big Company Politics
Fun Culture, Big Company Politics
Lots of opportunities, as Cisco is a large company where you can move around. The young culture made work fun! The bonuses were nice if your company did well. The on-campus health was nice!
Standard big company politics such as fighting for a raise, competing with your peers, and layoffs. Bad managers seemed like they were not kicked out soon enough!
Clean house of some of the stale managers!
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Nice people, but hard questions. One phone interview and one onsite interview with four people. All technical questions were asked, with no behavioral questions. It took more than half a day. All questions were coding skill questions.
Software Engineer
Initially, I went to the career fair at my university and had a 10-minute in-person interview with one of the recruiters. Next, I received a phone call for another on-campus screening interview, which was pretty easy, considering my interviewer wasn
Software Engineer
The three-phase interview was conducted very well. All the team members were very positive and genuinely interested in what I was doing in my previous job and how we performed as a company.
Software Engineer
San Jose, California, United StatesMarch 1, 2012Nice people, but hard questions. One phone interview and one onsite interview with four people. All technical questions were asked, with no behavioral questions. It took more than half a day. All questions were coding skill questions.
Software Engineer
San Jose, California, United StatesFebruary 1, 2010Initially, I went to the career fair at my university and had a 10-minute in-person interview with one of the recruiters. Next, I received a phone call for another on-campus screening interview, which was pretty easy, considering my interviewer wasn
Software Engineer
San Jose, California, United StatesMay 1, 2013The three-phase interview was conducted very well. All the team members were very positive and genuinely interested in what I was doing in my previous job and how we performed as a company.
