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Cisco Software Engineer interview experience

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Bangalore RuralPosted Jul 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

The early rounds leaned heavily on networking and core computer-science foundations.

My first step included a multiple-choice section paired with programming that involved pseudo-code alongside a core question. It felt like a test that mixed knowledge with logic and required careful attention to how the question was framed.

After completing that, I got a call for a technical round. That round reinforced the same themes: networking fundamentals and deeper reasoning. A pattern I noticed was that graphs and networking concepts showed up in the code and in the conceptual questioning, and the process overall seemed to select only a small number of people from the college

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