Just finished my Cisco interview. I think it went fairly well. They didn't ask very many difficult questions regarding my coding abilities, in fact I think my Victoria's Secret interview was a little more stringent in the questions they asked. The gentleman that interviewed me was very nice, although I don't think he was too comfortable interviewing. I think about half-way through he realized I'm not the most evil person in the world, and sort of started to laugh and crack jokes. That was nice. He ended the interview explaining the next steps saying somethig to the effect of "I'll pass on the results to my supervisor, and the other people who are interviewing and I will fight it out. If you get chosen we'll have you up to San Jose for an on-site interview". I took this to mean it went okay, until when we were exchanging fare-wells he said "I hope I'll get to meet you when you come up to San Jose" I took that to mean it went quite well.

In any case, it's fun to see the interview process in action and see how a big corporation does things. Quite the far cry from my humble work conditions now. The job title was something like "IT Coordinator". I'd be working in the B2B (Business to Business) division with a team of 15 or so developing software that essentially lets networks (as in the actual equipment) to order additional pieces. I didn't get the full gist of what that means, but I would imagine it means that in the event that a router or switch fails, and the backup takes over the backup will automatically send an order to Cisco for a new backup. Or maybe even if the network load is high in a certain region additional switches will be ordered. Or maybe I'm just on crack. Hopefully I'll get a call back and get to go San Jose and actually see the Cisco campus.