Just finished a Cisco PM interview process for a role on the Webex product team. Took about 6 weeks from phone screen to offer. Sharing because the PM interview content at Cisco is pretty different from consumer PM interviews and I didn't find much that was accurate.
The overall structure was: recruiter screen, PM phone screen, then a full onsite with 5 people.
PM phone screen (45 min with a PM): They asked me to walk through a product I own end to end. Not a generic product, my actual product. Then they asked about a roadmap tradeoff decision I made recently. Already at the phone screen level they want substance, not frameworks.
Onsite product rounds:
"Walk me through how you'd prioritize features for an enterprise collaboration product when you have conflicting signals from sales, customers, and engineering." This is classic B2B PM territory and came up in multiple forms.
"How would you measure the success of a newly launched Webex feature for hybrid work?" They probed on metric selection and what leading vs. lagging indicators I'd track.
"Cisco just acquired a small networking startup. How would you think about integrating their product into the Webex platform?" This felt like a case question more than a PM question but they weren't looking for a BCG-style answer. They wanted to see how I'd actually do discovery and talk to customers.
"Tell me about a time you had to kill a feature. What happened?" Behavioral but product-specific.
What they don't ask much: classic consumer product design questions ("design an elevator for blind users") are rare. Cisco PM interviews are heavier on B2B strategy, customer discovery, and cross-functional alignment.
Technical depth: they'll ask enough to validate you can talk to engineers. I got asked about API design at a concept level and about how network protocols affect product decisions for enterprise customers. You don't need to code but you need to hold your own in a technical conversation.
Overall I'd say it's a real PM interview, not an easy one. Enterprise product sense plus strong execution examples are the core.