Cisco interview questions
Updated 2 Jun 2026Difficulty
Average
Experience
Very positive
How others got an interview
- 27%Campus recruitingCampus recruiting
- 16%Employee referralEmployee referral
- 10%RecruiterRecruiter
- 3%Recruitment agencyRecruitment agency
- 3%OtherOther
- 2%In personIn person
Interview search
6,659 interviews
Cisco interviews FAQs
- Glassdoor users rated their interview experience at Cisco as 72.9% positive with a difficulty rating score of 3.18 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty). Candidates interviewing for IPT Engineer and Assistant Engineer rated their interviews as the hardest, whereas interviews for Asset Management and Apprentice roles were rated as the easiest.
- The hiring process at Cisco takes an average of 14 days when considering 1,492 user submitted interviews across all job titles. Candidates applying for Consulting Engineer had the quickest hiring process (on average 1 day), whereas Senior Software Developer roles had the slowest hiring process (on average 360 days).
- Common stages of the interview process at Cisco according to 1,492 Glassdoor interviews include:
One on one interview: 21%
Skills test: 13%
Presentation: 12%
Phone interview: 12%
Background check: 9%
Group panel interview: 9%
Personality test: 8%
IQ intelligence test: 8%
Drug test: 4%
Other: 4%
Here are the most commonly searched roles for interview reports -
- Software Engineer(3658) ;
- Senior Software Engineer(1001) ;
- Program Manager(621) ;
- Project Manager(603) ;
- Account Manager(593) ;
- Network Consulting Engineer(491) ;
- Systems Engineer(463) ;
- Network Engineer(448) ;
- Technical Consulting Engineer(417) ;
- Business Analyst(412) ;
- Technical Leader(353) ;
- Senior Manager(328) ;
- Product Manager(327) ;
- Director(325) ;
- Technical Lead(324) .