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Cisco Software Engineer interview experience

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

My interview process had three interviews and didn’t include any LeetCode-style coding at all.

Instead, they asked technical questions about my tech stack and my projects, and one interview was behavioral.

For the behavioral part, they leaned on basic STAR-method style questions, keeping it focused on how I handled past situations and how I explained my decision-making. Overall, the technical questions were more about understanding than about executing a specific algorithm under time pressure.

I went in through an employee referral for the role in Milpitas, and the overall difficulty was average. I ended without an offer, but the experience felt fair—like they were trying to map my

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