Cisco interview questions
Updated Jun 5, 2026Difficulty
Average
Experience
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How others got an interview
- 27%Campus RecruitingCampus Recruiting
- 16%Employee ReferralEmployee Referral
- 10%RecruiterRecruiter
- 3%Staffing AgencyStaffing Agency
- 3%OtherOther
- 2%In PersonIn Person
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Cisco interviews FAQs
- Glassdoor users rated their interview experience at Cisco as 85.7% positive with a difficulty rating score of 3.14 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty). Candidates interviewing for Senior Network Security Engineer and Technical Lead rated their interviews as the hardest, whereas interviews for Retail Sales Associate and Am roles were rated as the easiest.
- The hiring process at Cisco takes an average of 26 days when considering 35 user submitted interviews across all job titles. Candidates applying for Technical Consulting Engineer had the quickest hiring process (on average 1 day), whereas Security Engineer roles had the slowest hiring process (on average 90 days).
- Common stages of the interview process at Cisco according to 35 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 18%
One on one interview: 18%
Presentation: 15%
Group panel interview: 13%
Skills test: 9%
Drug test: 7%
Background check: 6%
IQ intelligence test: 5%
Other: 5%
Personality test: 4%
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