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Cisco Software Engineer interview experience

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BengaluruPosted Jul 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My start was rough: the online assessment was truly challenging and felt like it demanded knowledge across a much wider surface area than I expected.

I sat through an OA with a heavy mix—multiple-choice plus coding questions and several sections of subjective, scenario-style prompts—so it wasn’t only about LeetCode-style problems. One of the sections read like short paragraphs where I had to answer questions in words, and the difficulty came through immediately as I moved from coding into the more judgment-based parts.

In addition to that, when I got to the coding components they were hard in a way that felt like both speed and correctness were required. My background is CS, but the content I saw included things that felt closer to

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