Cisco·Software Engineer

Cisco Software Engineer interview experience

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Milpitas, CAPosted Aug 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

The process was pretty straightforward to map out.

It started with a recruiter call, then I had a technical interview focused on coding. After that, there was an onsite loop that broke into three technical parts: a logic/DSP interview, a session where they reviewed code and then asked me to talk about my projects, and finally a hiring manager interview that looked through my past GitHub projects.

Overall, it felt like they wanted to connect everything—from my coding work to how I present and justify the choices I’d made. I didn’t get an offer.

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