Cisco·Software Engineer

Cisco Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Hard

Negative

BengaluruPosted Apr 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I went through an unusually heavy, single-round process for a software engineering role at Cisco: a full implementation exercise with multiple tasks.

They provided a screenshot of a UI-like table that included pagination and searching, and I had to implement that functionality from scratch using RxJS and HTTP.

The requirements also included delete functionality and an additional feature, so it wasn’t just wiring up one small thing. The round itself was substantial, but the bigger issue was what happened after—communication was slow, and I didn’t get updates for a while even after completing the work.

Overall it felt tough mainly because the scope was large, but my real frustration was the silence afterward. I didn’t receive an offer, and

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