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Cisco Software Engineer interview experience

USACandidate report, summarized by Dataford

After getting laid off, I was just in immediate recovery mode and looking for referrals from product-based companies.

It wasn’t really an interview journey I could describe—more like a fast pivot to networking and getting my name in front of teams that might be hiring.

What stood out was how quickly priorities changed: instead of preparing for any specific round, I was focused on finding routes into new opportunities. There wasn’t any concrete interview structure or timeline mentioned, just the urgency of finding traction after the layoff.

My honest reflection was that the search became the work itself for a while, because the next step depended less on interview readiness and more on whether I could get

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