Technical Consulting Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Cisco with 3.2 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 100% positive. To compare, the company-average is 72.9% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Technical Consulting Engineer roles take an average of 7 days to get hired, when considering 14 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Cisco overall takes an average of 14 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Cisco as a Technical Consulting Engineer according to 14 Glassdoor interviews include:
One on one interview: 21%
Skills test: 15%
Background check: 13%
Phone interview: 13%
Presentation: 13%
IQ intelligence test: 8%
Drug test: 5%
Other: 5%
Personality test: 5%
Group panel interview: 3%
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Technical but relaxed, troubleshooting is super important so if you’re not technical, maybe apply how you troubleshoot other things in a different work setting for example. And brush up on CCNA topics of course, but mostly be ambitious
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What could happen with a switching loop and how do we negate the issue?
I applied through university. I interviewed at Cisco in Jun 2026
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Mainly asked about the networking and OSI models and if any project related to the networking as well as how you communicate and how is ur confidence level, the tip is to speak confidently and try to answer all the questions
total 3 technical rounds.
more over on packaet flow and aaa based questions
what happens when you type google.com
RADIUS VS TACACS
Guest auth flow
switching questions
vlan
intervlan routing
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EAP-TLS packet flow with details explaination step by step
I applied through university. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Cisco
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Behavioral Questions were asked such as working in team environment and how would you handle difficult situations. They also wanted to test your knowledge about the work of the company and its products
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Tell me about yourself. Working in team environment, and how would you handle disputes