The leadership is ethically sound, and an ethical culture is promoted. Employees are compensated fairly, and managers are encouraged to be considerate towards allowing a good work/life balance.
Engineers get to work on modern and leading-edge network technologies, often with deep worldwide market penetration, which can be rewarding.
Cisco does not have any real research division. All work is very product-to-market focused.
The company is very big, which means bureaucratic processes, red tape, and infighting.
Engineers work in very boring cubicles. The "break rooms" are noisy, dirty kitchens.
Mostly from Leetcode medium question in 3 rounds and 2 rounds of design level question and one phone screening. And networking question from past experience. L2/L3 forwarding, MAC learning, IGMP, TCP/IP, L3 routing, Tunneling.
It was good. They asked mainly about: * Algorithms * Testing frameworks * Testing concepts * Release activities and processes * CI/CD pipelines * Repository architecture
It was straightforward. I was provided with a blueprint for the interview and had a designated time to speak for myself. They then assessed me based on the questions they chose to ask.
Mostly from Leetcode medium question in 3 rounds and 2 rounds of design level question and one phone screening. And networking question from past experience. L2/L3 forwarding, MAC learning, IGMP, TCP/IP, L3 routing, Tunneling.
It was good. They asked mainly about: * Algorithms * Testing frameworks * Testing concepts * Release activities and processes * CI/CD pipelines * Repository architecture
It was straightforward. I was provided with a blueprint for the interview and had a designated time to speak for myself. They then assessed me based on the questions they chose to ask.