Fancy offices with nice chairs that cost $1000 per chair, and whiteboard walls.
Good benefits.
A lot of contractor employees, especially from India, which makes it hard to work.
I've seen some managers cheating with money. At least it was before; maybe now it is a little bit different because of the strict money management system.
Senior management is arrogant and proud to the low-level employees.
Cisco's real workforce is consultants who are cheap. Most of the "blue badge" people are managers or higher.
Culture: Lots of Indians. If you are Indian, then this place is for you.
I submitted my resume through Cisco.com for a Software Engineering internship position. It took about a month for them to contact me back. The recruiter called me for a phone interview; the questions were pretty easy, mostly a review of my resume an
The interview had three parts. Part one and three involved an interview with one engineer. Part two was an interview with a product manager and another engineer. Interviewer #1 frequently left the interview and was busy with their own work through
Typical LeetCode question and basic knowledge of object-oriented programming type questions. Had to type out the code on a shared screen and explain my thought process. Question and answer at the end.
I submitted my resume through Cisco.com for a Software Engineering internship position. It took about a month for them to contact me back. The recruiter called me for a phone interview; the questions were pretty easy, mostly a review of my resume an
The interview had three parts. Part one and three involved an interview with one engineer. Part two was an interview with a product manager and another engineer. Interviewer #1 frequently left the interview and was busy with their own work through
Typical LeetCode question and basic knowledge of object-oriented programming type questions. Had to type out the code on a shared screen and explain my thought process. Question and answer at the end.