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      Software Development Engineer Interview

      29 Jan 2023
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Ottawa, ON
      Declined offer
      Negative experience
      Easy interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Cisco (Ottawa, ON) in July 2022

      Interview

      This is the worst interview experience I have ever had. After wasting my 7 hours, the recruiter said the salary range is 40k less than my expectation, which was provided in the beginning and they still wasted my time: - very unprofessional and non-responsive recruiter. She explained to me the agenda of interviews or replied to my emails - Other than 2 interviewers: Niloy & Ali, all others don't know what they should be asking in the interview. They literally read my resume in an interview and were out of questions in half time. one of the interviewers was having her camera off the entire interview. - Same discussion happened in 4 interviews Suggestions to management: - Polish the interview process to be what you wanted when you were a candidate - Get some knowledgeable and professional interviewers. Having decade of experience doesn't make you a good interviewer - Make some sensible rounds: Manager round --> technical --> Director/final instead of: normal chat --> normal chat --> normal chat --> normal chat --> manager --> un-necessary Director interview

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Mostly resume based plus 3 easy-medium level algorithms
      Answer question

      Other Software Development Engineer interview reviews for Cisco

      Software Development Engineer Interview

      31 July 2023
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Bangalore Rural
      No offer
      Positive experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied through university. I interviewed at Cisco (Bangalore Rural) in July 2023

      Interview

      online test with 40 questions of mcq's and one coding test All networking questions ,aptitude questions, time complexity questions. and some programming stuff with outputs and missing line of codes

      Software Development Engineer Interview

      12 Feb 2023
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Boston, MA
      No offer
      Neutral experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Cisco (Boston, MA) in Jan 2023

      Interview

      The online accessment is in medium level. It contains three quizes, level of which is increasing. The total time is one and a half hour. However, their code platform is not easy to use, especially you need to print the value mannually as the output, which took me mintues to figure out why I got no output!

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      1. Spin the matrix by 90 deg clock-wise 2. House robber. 3. Spiral matrix
      Answer question