Cisco·Software Engineer

Cisco Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Hard

Positive

IndiaPosted Sep 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I got pulled in through a referral, and the interview difficulty felt medium.

The questions covered CS fundamentals mainly around networking, and the interviewers also asked about my projects to see how I’d applied that knowledge.

I was given a DSA problem that asked me to find the largest number in an array, and there was also a puzzle to solve. The mix of networking fundamentals plus a coding-style question plus a puzzle made it feel like they were testing both structured thinking and flexibility.

I didn’t receive an offer, and I remember feeling that even though it wasn’t the hardest format, the networking emphasis and the puzzle component made it harder to

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